Broome Sandstone
Stratigraphic range: Valanginian-Barremian
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TypeGeological formation
Unit ofDampier Group
UnderliesMelligo Sandstone
OverliesJarlemai Siltstone (Unconformity), Broome Buchia Beds, Baleine Formation
Thickness300 m (980 ft)
Lithology
PrimarySandstone
OtherMudstone, siltstone, conglomerate
Location
Coordinates17°30′S 122°06′E / 17.5°S 122.1°E / -17.5; 122.1
Approximate paleocoordinates50°30′S 86°54′E / 50.5°S 86.9°E / -50.5; 86.9
RegionWestern Australia
Country Australia
ExtentCarnarvon Basin
 Bedout Sub-basin
Broome Sandstone is located in Australia
Broome Sandstone
Broome Sandstone (Australia)

The Broome Sandstone, formerly known as the Broome Beds, is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation found in Western Australia, and formerly considered part of Dampier Group. Fossil sauropod tracks, belonging to an unknown ichnotaxon, and stegosaur tracks belonging to the ichnogenus and species Garbina roeorum have been reported from the formation.[1][2][3]

See also

References

  1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  2. "Broome Sandstone". Australian Stratigraphic Units Database. Geoscience Australia and Australian Stratigraphy Commission. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  3. Yanijarri-Lurujarri at Fossilworks.org

Bibliography

  • Weishampel, David B.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21. ISBN 0-520-24209-2

Further reading

  • S. W. Salisbury, A. Romilio, M. C. Herne, R. T. Tucker, and J. P. Nair. 2016. The Dinosaurian Ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany Area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 16. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(6, suppl.):1-152
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