Assaouas Formation

Assaouas Formation
Stratigraphic range: Middle Jurassic
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Agadez Group
Underlies	Irhazer Shale
Lithology
Primary	Sandstone
Location
Coordinates	17.9°N 7.1°E / 17.9; 7.1
Approximate paleocoordinates	9.2°N 2.6°E / 9.2; 2.6
Region	Agadez
Country	Niger
Type section
Named for	Assaouas, Agadez
Assaouas Formation (Niger)

The Assaouas Formation, also referred to as the Assaouas Sandstone (French: Grès d'Assaouas) is a Late Jurassic geologic formation in Niger. Fossil sauropod tracks have been reported from the formation.

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with sauropodomorph tracks
    • Sauropod tracks
• Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Africa
  • List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Niger
• Geology of Niger

References

Bibliography

• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

Further reading

• L. Ginsburg, A. F. d.e. Lapparent, B. Loiret and P. Taquet. 1966. Empreintes de pas de Vertébrés tétrapodes dans le séries continentales à l’Ouest d’Agadès (République du Niger) [Tetrapod vertebrate footprints in the continental series west of Agadez (Republic of Niger)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série D 263:28-31