Camp des deux arbres, Gadoufaoua: Albian, Niger
collected by P. Taquet, G. Ligabue 1965–1966, 1970, 1973
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
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Lepidotes sp.
Agassiz 1832
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Taquet 1976 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
skeleton | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Ornithopoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Taquet 1970 | 3 individuals | ||||||||
"Iguanodontidé trapu" (7 measurements) | ||||||||||
= Lurdusaurus arenatus n. gen., n. sp.
Taquet and Russell 1999
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Taquet and Russell 1999 | |||||||||
MNHN GDF 381, 43G, 1700 | ||||||||||
Iguanodon sp.
Mantell 1825
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1 individual | |||||||||
= Iguanodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1850
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Taquet 1970 | |||||||||
= Ouranosaurus nigeriensis n. gen., n. sp.
Taquet 1972
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Taquet 1972 | |||||||||
MNHN GDF 300 | ||||||||||
Titanosauridae indet.
Lydekker 1885
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Taquet 1970 | 1 individual | ||||||||
small individual, right arm, ?Dicraeosaurinae | ||||||||||
= Dicraeosaurinae indet.
Janensch 1929
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Taquet 1977 | |||||||||
= Nigersaurus taqueti
Sereno et al. 1999
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Lefebvre et al. 2023 | |||||||||
Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Taquet 1976 | |||||||||
brevirostrine form | ||||||||||
= Araripesuchus sp.
Price 1959
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Buffetaut and Taquet 1979 | |||||||||
GDF 700 | ||||||||||
= Araripesuchus wegeneri n. sp.
Buffetaut 1981
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Buffetaut 1981 | |||||||||
Testudinata indet.
(Oppel 1811)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Pelomedusidae indet.
Cope 1868
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Taquet 1976 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
skull | ||||||||||
= Teneremys lapparenti n. gen., n. sp.
de Broin 1980
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de Broin 1980 | |||||||||
GDF 820–822, 827–828 | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Unionidae
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Unionidae indet.
Rafinesque 1820
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Mongin and Lapparent 1968 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
? Cuneopsis giganteus
Mongin 1963
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Mongin and Lapparent 1968 | 34 specimens | ||||||||
2 forms (one is elongata) | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Margaritiferidae
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Margaritifera (Pseudunio) valdensis
(Mantell 1844)
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Mongin and Lapparent 1968 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Margaritifera (Pseudunio) saharica n. sp.
Mongin and Lapparent 1968
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Mongin and Lapparent 1968 | |||||||||
Margaritifera (Margaritifera) rhazensis n. sp.
Mongin and Lapparent 1968
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Mongin and Lapparent 1968 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Trigonioididae
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aff. Trigonioides sp.
Kobayashi and Suzuki 1936
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Taquet 1976 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Niger | State/province: | Agadez |
Coordinates: | 16.7° North, 9.3° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 0.7° North, 3.6° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Altitude: | 541 meters | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
*Period: | Early/Lower Cretaceous | ||
Key time interval: | Albian | ||
Age range of interval: | 113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Associated major elements: | many |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Encrustation: | none |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | MNHN | ||
Collectors: | P. Taquet, G. Ligabue | Collection dates: | 1965–1966, 1970, 1973 |
Metadata
Database number: | 28569 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-02-19 15:33:53 | Last modified: | 2019-04-18 10:24:46 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-02-19 15:33:53 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
68572. | 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] |
Secondary references:
68630 | A. Azzaroli. 1972. I dinosauri in Africa [Dinosaurs in Africa]. In G. Ligabue, G. Pinna, A. Azzaroli, & P. Taquet (eds.), I Dinosauri del Teneré 42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
52018 | F. Bertozzo, B. Favaretto, M. Bon and F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2013. Il paratipo di Ouranosaurus nigeriensis Taquet, 1976 (Ornithischia, Ornithopoda) esposto al Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia: storia del reperto e prospettive per studi di dettaglio [The paratype of Ouranosaurus nigeriensis Taquet, 1976 (Ornithischia, Ornithopoda) exhibited at the Museum of Natural History of Venice: history of discovery and prospects for detailed studies]. Bollettino del Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia 64:119-130 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
39665 | E. Buffetaut. 1981. Die biogeographische Geschichte der Krokodilier, mit Beschreibung einer neuen Art, Araripesuchus wegeneri [The biogeographic history of the crocodilians, with decrtiption of a new species, Araripesuchus wegeneri]. Geologische Rundschau 70(2):611-624 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano] | |
26123 | E. Buffetaut and P. Taquet. 1979. An early Cretaceous terrestrial crocodilian and the opening of the South Atlantic. Nature 280:486-487 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
60341 | P. J. Currie and K. Padian. 1997. Institute de Paléontologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 368-369 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
65744 | F. de Broin. 1980. Les tortues de Gadoufaoua (Aptien du Niger); aperçu sur la Paléobiogéographie des Pelomedusidae (Pleurodira). Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 139:39-46 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
64413 | A. de Ricqlès. 1967. La paléontologie de terrain: un bilan international [Paleontology in the field: an international report]. Atomes 243:337-341 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
85593 | R. Lefebvre, R. Allain, and A. Houssaye. 2023. What’s inside a sauropod limb? First three-dimensional investigation of the limb long bone microanatomy of a sauropod dinosaur, Nigersaurus taqueti (Neosauropoda, Rebbachisauridae), and implications for the weight-bearing function. Palaeontology [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
78632 | D. Mongin and A. F. d. Lapparent. 1968. Étude paléontologique de Lamellibranches limniques récoltés dans le Crétacé inférieur du Niger (Afrique) [Paleontological study of the limnic lamellibranchs recovered in the Lower Cretaceous of Niger (Africa)]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 7e série 10:148-155 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
68629 | G. Pinna. 1972. Le ricerche paleontologiche italiane nel Niger [Italian paleontological research in Niger]. In G. Ligabue, G. Pinna, A. Azzaroli, & P. Taquet (eds.), I Dinosauri del Teneré 41:61-74 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
17065 | ETE | P. Taquet. 1970. Sur le gisement de Dinosauriens et de Crocodiliens de Gadoufaoua (République du Niger) [On the dinosaur and crocodilian locality of Gadoufaoua (Republic of Niger)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série D 271:38-40 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
68627 | P. Taquet. 1972. Il giacimento di Gadoufaoua [The locality of Gadoufaoua]. In G. Ligabue, G. Pinna, A. Azzaroli, & P. Taquet (eds.), I Dinosauri del Teneré 41:51-60 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
68573 | P. Taquet. 1975. Remarques sur l'évolution des iguanodontidés et l'origine des hadrosauridés [Remarks on the evolution of iguanodontids and the origin of hadrosaurids]. Colloques Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 218:503-511 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
25315 | ETE | P. Taquet. 1976. Géologie et Paléontologie du Gisement de Gadoufaoua (Aptien du Niger) [Geology and Paleontology of the Gadoufaoua Locality (Aptian of Niger)]. Cahiers de Paléontologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 1-191 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
68574 | P. Taquet. 1977. Les découvertes récentes de Dinosaures du Jurassique et du Crétacé en Afrique, au Proche et Moyen-Orient et en Inde [Recent discoveries of dinosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous in Africa, the Near and Middle East, and India]. Mémoire Hors Serie—Société Géologique de France 8:325-330 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
37176 | P. Taquet. 1982. The Aptian fossil locality of Gadoufaoua in the Republic of Niger. National Geographic Society Research Reports 14:649-653 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
63571 | P. Taquet. 1984. I dinosauri d’Africa [The dinosaurs of Africa]. In G. M. Ronzoni, M. L. Greggio, & T. B. Guarinoni (eds.), Sulle Orme dei Dinosauri 75-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
7886 | P. Taquet and D. A. Russell. 1999. A massively-constructed iguanodont from Gadoufaoua, Lower Cretaceous of Niger. Annales de Paléontologie 85(1):85-96 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
61518 | D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
45777 | S. Wenz. 1999. Pliodetes nigeriensis, gen. nov. et. sp. nov., a new semionotid fish from the Lower Cretaceous of Gadoufaoua (Niger Republic): phylogenetic comments. In G. Arratia & H.-P. Schultz (ed.), Mesozoic Fishes 2—Systematics and Fossil Record 107-120 [M. Bell/M. Bell/M. Carrano] |