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The Wadi Milk Formation is one of the best known dinosaur-bearing units in central Africa. The age of this important formation is assumed to be Late Cretaceous. We have shown for the first time that the Wadi Milk Formation is of Campanian age or younger.
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Why is it important?
The Campanian age for the Wadi Milk Formation indicates that this rich fossil-bearing unit now corresponds to a particularly poorly sampled Late Cretaceous interval in the terrestrial vertebrate record of Africa.
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This study shows that U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology can serve as a great tool for putting constraints on vaguely biostratigraphic age of continental sedimentary units
Prince Owusu Agyemang
James Cook University
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This page is a summary of: U-Pb detrital zircon constraints on the depositional age and provenance of the dinosaur-bearing Upper Cretaceous Wadi Milk Formation of Sudan, Cretaceous Research, January 2019, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2019.01.005.
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