Turkana Grits

Turkana Grits
Lapurr sandstone
Stratigraphic range: Turonian-Santonian[1]
Type Geological formation
Unit of Rift Valley
Lithology
Primary Sandstone
Location
Coordinates 4°18′N 35°48′E / 4.3°N 35.8°E / 4.3; 35.8Coordinates: 4°18′N 35°48′E / 4.3°N 35.8°E / 4.3; 35.8
Approximate paleocoordinates 13°48′S 27°48′E / 13.8°S 27.8°E / -13.8; 27.8
Region Rift Valley Province
Country  Kenya
Type section
Named for Lake Turkana

The Turkana Grits or Lapurr sandstone is a geological formation in Kenya whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains have been recovered from it.[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs of the Turkana Grits
Taxa Presence Notes Images

Geographically present in Rift Valley Province, Kenya.

An unnamed titanosaur

Geographically present in Rift Valley Province, Kenya.[1]
  • Pterodactyloidea indet.[3]

Geographically present in Rift Valley Province, Kenya.

Geographically present in Rift Valley Province, Kenya.

An unnamed giant abelisaurid.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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. ISBN 0-520-24209-2. " Pp. 517-607.
  2. ↑ https://etd.ohiolink.edu/pg_10?0::NO:10:P10_ACCESSION_NUM:ohiou1478778037108276
  3. ↑ O'Connor PM, Sertich JJW, Manthi FK (2011) A pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Lapurr sandstone, West Turkana, Kenya. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 83: 309–315.
  4. ↑ Sertich, J., O’Connor, P., Seiffert, E. & Manthi, F. 2013. A giant abelisaurid theropod from the latest Cretaceous of Northern Turkana, Kenya. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP Program and Abstracts Book, 2013, pp211.
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