Niveau des Innocents, Gadoufaoua (Cretaceous of Niger)

Where: Agadez, Niger (16.5° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 2.8° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Elrhaz Formation (Tegama Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• "niveau des innocents" within the El Rhaz Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by P. Taquet in 1965, 1970, 1972–1973; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. Taquet. 1967. Découvertes paléontologiques récentes dans le Nord du Niger [Recent paleontological discoveries in the north of Niger]. Colloques Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 163:415-418 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37200: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.03.2004, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae
Mawsonia tegamensis n. sp.8 Wenz 1975 coelacanth
skull
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Teneremys lapparenti1 de Broin 1980 sideneck turtle
GDF 819
Francemys gadoufaouaensis n. gen. n. sp.4 Pérez-García 2019 sideneck turtle
 Loricata - Pholidosauridae
Sarcosuchus imperator de Broin and Taquet 1966 crocodilian
 Ornithischia - Dryosauridae
"Valdosaurus nigeriensis n. sp." = Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis2
"Valdosaurus nigeriensis n. sp." = Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis2 Galton and Taquet 1982 ornithopod
MNHN GDF 332, femur
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontidae
Iguanodontidae indet.6 Bonaparte 1850 iguanodontid
"Iguanodontidé trapu"
 Ornithischia -
Ouranosaurus nigeriensis6 Taquet 1972 ornithopod
 Theropoda - Spinosauridae
Cristatusaurus lapparenti n. gen. n. sp.7
Cristatusaurus lapparenti n. gen. n. sp.7 Taquet and Russell 1998 tetanuran theropod
GDF 365, 366, neural arch
 Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae
Nigersaurus taqueti3 Sereno et al. 1999 sauropod
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
Pliodetes nigeriensis n. gen. n. sp.9
Pliodetes nigeriensis n. gen. n. sp.9 Wenz 1999 gar
MNHN-GDF 1275: Referred specimens - MNHN GDF-1274 to 1281, GD-1285-1309
 Coniferales -
Paradoxopteris stromeri
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