The Shendi Formation is a

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of the Atbara-Shendi Basin in northern Sudan.Eltayib et al., 2018, p.2 Indeterminate

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remains have been recovered from it.Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution" Pp. 517-607. in Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. . " Pp. 517-607. As well as those of the

dyrosaurid Dyrosauridae is a family (biology), family of extinct neosuchian crocodyliforms that lived from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) to the Eocene. Dyrosaurid fossils are globally distributed, having been found in Africa, Asia, Europe, North Amer ...

Hyposaurus ''Hyposaurus'' is a genus of extinct marine dyrosaurid crocodyliform. Fossils have been found in Paleocene aged rocks of the Iullemmeden Basin in West Africa, Campanian–Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) Shendi Formation of Sudan and Maastrichtia ...

''. It consists of a lower unit of fine grained meandering channel sediments, separated by an erosive contact with overlying meandering to braided river channel sandstones. The formation overlies Precambrian basement and is overlain by the Hudi Chert.Eltayib et al., 2018, p.2 The total thickness of the formation amounts to .Eltayib et al., 2018, p.3

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