Lossiemouth Sandstone
Lossiemouth Sandstone Stratigraphic range: Carnian | |
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Type | Geological formation |
Location | |
Country | Scotland |
The Lossiemouth Sandstone is a Late Triassic (Carnian) geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]
Paleofauna
Vertebrates reported from the Lossiemouth Sandstone | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
Dasygnathus |
D. longidens |
Renamed Ornithosuchus longidens |
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E. Granti |
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H. gordoni |
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L. lacertinum |
A Procolophonid | |||||
O. longidens |
An Ornithosuchid | |||||
O. taylori |
Junior synonym of O. longidens | |||||
O. woodwardi |
Junior synonym of O. longidens | |||||
S. elginensis[2] |
"Partial postcranial skeleton."[2] |
A Dinosauriform | ||||
S. taylori |
An Avemetatarsalian | |||||
S. robertsoni |
An Aetosaur | |||||
Telerpeton |
T. elginense |
Junior synonym of Leptopleuron | ||||
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
Footnotes
References
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.