A dinosaur fauna from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of northern Sudan

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dc.contributor.authorRauhut, Oliver W M
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-12T08:52:41Z
dc.date.available2015-01-12T08:52:41Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.description.abstractA dinosaur fauna from the Cenomanian of northern Sudan (Wadi Milk Formation) is described. It comprises at least nine, probably ten to eleven taxa: a dicraeosaurid, a titanosaurid and another undetermined sauropod (possibly a titanosaurid), two charcharodontosaurids, a dromaeosaurid, a probable hypsilophodontid and two iguanodontian ornithopods. It is one of the most diverse dinosaur faunas known from the Cretaceous of Africa. The environment was probably a semiarid savanna with some rivers, lined by dense vegetation, with abundant sauropods, less abundant theropods and rare ornithopods. Gigantic carcharodontosaurids were at the top of the food chain. At the present state of knowledge, the dinosaur fauna from the middle to late Cretaceous of Africa can be characterized by the presence of carcharodontosaurids, spinosaurids, titanosaurids, diplodocoids, and possibly iguanodontian ornithopods.en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Council's Research Committe, University of the Witwatersrand; National Science Foundation; EC, TMR grant ERBFMBICT 961013; DFG grant Kr 477/11 “Sudan-Wirbeltiere”en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0078-8554
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/16451
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherBernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Researchen_ZA
dc.subjectAfricaen_ZA
dc.subjectcretaceousen_ZA
dc.subjectDinosauriaen_ZA
dc.subjectpalaeoecologyen_ZA
dc.subjectpalaeobiogeographyen_ZA
dc.titleA dinosaur fauna from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of northern Sudanen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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