Irhazer Shale
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The Irhazer Shale (Template:Langx) or Irhazer II Formation is a Middle Jurassic geologic formation of the Irhazer Group in the Agadez Region of Niger. Fossil ornithopod tracks have been reported from the formation.[1] The dinosaur Spinophorosaurus is known from the formation.[2]
Description
As the overlying Tiouraren Formation of the Irhazer Group, the formation previously had been assigned an Early Cretaceous age.[2][3][4]
Fossil content
The following fossils were reported from the formation:[2][3][4]
- Allosauridae indet.[5]
- Elaphrosaurus iguidiensis
- Ornithopoda indet.
- Paravipus didactyloides[6]
- Spinosauridae or Megalosauridae indet.[7][8]
- Spinophorosaurus nigerensis
See also
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- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
- Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Africa
- Geology of Niger
References
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- ↑ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ↑ a b c North of Aderbissinat at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ a b Ifayen Ignère at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ a b In Gall at Fossilworks.org
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Bibliography
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. Template:ISBN.
Further reading
- A. F. d. Lapparent. (1960). Les Dinosauriens du "Continental intercalaire" du Saharal central [The dinosaurs of the "Continental Intercalaire" of the central Sahara]. Mémoires de la Société géologique de France, nouvelle série 39(88A):1-57
- K. Remes, F. Ortega, I. Fierro, U. Joger, R. Kosma, J. M. M. Ferrer, Project, Niger Project, O. A. Ide and A. Maga. (2009). A new basal sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Niger and the early evolution of Sauropoda. PLoS One 4(9):e6924:1-13