NEW RECORD OF SOME VERTEBRATE FOOT PRINTS FROM MUKDADIYA FORMATION, CHAMCHEMAL AREA, NE-IRAQ

Kamal Haji Karim; Khalid Mahmood; Ibrahim M.J. Mohyaldin

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NEW RECORD OF SOME VERTEBRATE FOOT PRINTS FROM MUKDADIYA FORMATION, CHAMCHEMAL AREA, NE-IRAQ

Authors:

Kamal Haji Karim | Khalid Mahmood | Ibrahim M.J. Mohyaldin

Publisher:

Iraqi Geologists Union (Union of Iraqi Geologists)

Journal:

The Iraqi Geological Journal 38 Vol.34 Issue 1, pp.65-73

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2005

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001835791

pISSN:

2663-8754

Keywords:

Geology

Abstract:

 Two types of vertebrate footprints are recorded for the first time in Mukdadiya Formation at Chamchemal area, NE – Iraq. The first one belongs to birds and thesecond to hoofed sheep-like mammals. Both types are found on the upper surface of thick, massive, occasionally pebbly sandstone beds of Mukdadiya ormation. This formation is composed of alternation of thick beds of light brown claystones and sandstone. The footprints are evidence that the depositional environment of the Formation was continental of fluvial type. The pebbly sandstones were deposited in river channels floor as lag sediments and claystones on flood plain (over bank) while the sandstone beds represented the point bars sediments. The Upper Miocene – Pliocene coastal area of the Zagros Foreland basin was at the position of the footprints. The animal paleocommunity is inferred from footprints that are similar to recent except for large size of the birds as reflected by their footprints. The foot trace fossils were formed during searching for food on bank of the rivers that time.

Article Details

NEW RECORD OF SOME VERTEBRATE FOOT PRINTS FROM MUKDADIYA FORMATION, CHAMCHEMAL AREA, NE-IRAQ

Authors: Kamal Haji Karim | Khalid Mahmood | Ibrahim M.J. Mohyaldin

Publisher: Iraqi Geologists Union (Union of Iraqi Geologists)

Journal: The Iraqi Geological Journal 38 Vol.34 Issue 1, pp.65-73

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 1/2005

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001835791

pISSN: 2663-8754

Geology

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Authors:

Kamal Haji Karim | Khalid Mahmood | Ibrahim M.J. Mohyaldin

Publisher:

Iraqi Geologists Union (Union of Iraqi Geologists)

Journal:

The Iraqi Geological Journal 38 Vol.34 Issue 1, pp.65-73

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2005

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001835791

pISSN:

2663-8754