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Echkar Formation

 
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Echkar Formation
Type Geological formation
Age Cenomanian
Unit of Tegama Group
Overlies Elrhaz Formation
Lithology
Location
Country  Niger

The Echkar Formation is a geological formation in Niger whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous (Cenomanian stage, about 93 million years ago). Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

See also

References

  1. ^ Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Cretaceous, Africa)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 571-573. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.



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