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The Wadi Milk Formation is a geological formation in Sudan whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous

Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous series...

. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.

Ornithischians

Ornithischians of the Wadi Milk Formation
Taxa	Presence	Notes	Images
Genus: Euornithopoda Indeterminate remains.	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.
Genus: Iguanodontia Indeterminate remains.	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.
Genus: Ornithopoda Indeterminate remains.	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.
Genus: cf. Ouranosaurus Ouranosaurus Ouranosaurus is an unusual genus of herbivorous iguanodont dinosaur that lived during the early Cretaceous about 110 million years ago in what is now Africa. Ouranosaurus measured about seven to eight meters long... cf. Ouranosaurus sp.	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.

Saurischians

Sauropods of the Wadi Milk Formation
Taxa	Presence	Notes	Images
Family: Dicraeosauridae Dicraeosauridae Dicraeosauridae is a family of sauropod dinosaurs known from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Africa and South America. Currently only three genera are recognised; the Jurassic South American genus Brachytrachelopan, the Jurassic African Dicraeosaurus and the South American Early... Indeterminate remains.	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.
Genus: Lithostrotia Indeterminate remains.	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.	"(= Titanosauridae indet.)"

Theropods of the Wadi Milk Formation
Taxa	Presence	Notes	Images
Genus: Bahariasaurus Bahariasaurus Bahariasaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur found in the Bahariya Formation in El-Waha el-Bahariya or Bahariya oasis in Egypt and Kem Kem Beds of North Africa, which date to the late Cretaceous Period, , about 95 million years ago... Bahariasaurus sp.	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.
Family: Carcharodontosauridae Carcharodontosauridae Carcharodontosaurids were a group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs. In 1931 Ernst Stromer named Carcharodontosauridae as a family, in modern paleontology this name indicates a clade within Carnosauria... Indeterminate remains.	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.
Genus: Carcharodontosaurus Carcharodontosaurus Carcharodontosaurus was a gigantic carnivorous carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that lived around 100 to 93 million years ago, during the late Albian to early Cenomanian stages of the mid-Cretaceous Period... Carcharodontosaurus sp.	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.
Genus: Dromaeosauridae Dromaeosauridae Dromaeosauridae is a family of bird-like theropod dinosaurs. They were small- to medium-sized feathered carnivores that flourished in the Cretaceous Period. The name Dromaeosauridae means 'running lizards', from Greek dromeus meaning 'runner' and sauros meaning 'lizard'... Indeterminate remains.	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.
Genus: Theropoda Theropoda Theropoda is both a suborder of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs, and a clade consisting of that suborder and its descendants . Dinosaurs belonging to the suborder theropoda were primarily carnivorous, although a number of theropod groups evolved herbivory, omnivory, and insectivory... Indeterminate remains.	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.

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