Aztec Sandstone
| Aztec Sandstone Stratigraphic range: Early Jurassic | |
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 Outcrop of the Aztec Sandstone (Lower Jurassic) at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area near Las Vegas, Nevada. | |
| Type | Sedimentary |
| Underlies | Willow Tank Formation[1] |
| Overlies | Chinle Formation |
| Area | Nevada,[2] Arizona, California[3] |
| Thickness | 2100 feet in Goodsprings quadrangle,[2] 2500 feet in Muddy Mountain area[1] |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone |
| Location | |
| Region | Mojave Desert |
| Type section | |
| Named by | D. F. Hewett, 1931[2] |
The Aztec Sandstone is a Lower Jurassic geological formation of primarily eolian sand from which fossil pterosaur tracks have been recovered.
Vertebrate paleofauna
Color key
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
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See also
Footnotes
- 1 2 Longwell, C.R., 1949, Structure of the northern Muddy Mountain area, Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 60, no. 5, p. 923-967.
- 1 2 3 Hewett, D.F., 1931, Geology and ore deposits of the Goodsprings quadrangle, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 162, 172 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)
- ↑ Jennings, C.W., 1961, Geologic map of California; Kingman sheet: California Division of Mines and Geology, scale 1:250,000
- ↑ Listed as "cf. Anchisauripus" in "Appendix: Summary of the Mesozoic Reptilian Fossils of California," Hilton (2003) p. 265
- ↑ Listed as "cf. Grallator" in "Appendix: Summary of the Mesozoic Reptilian Fossils of California," in Hilton (2003) p. 265
- ↑ Lockley, et al. (2008)
References
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- Hilton, Richard P. 2003. Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California. Berkeley: University of California Press. 318 pp.
- Lockley, M.; Harris, J.D.; and Mitchell, L. 2008. "A global overview of pterosaur ichnology: tracksite distribution in space and time." Zitteliana. B28. p. 187-198. ISSN 1612 - 4138.
- Porter, M.L., 2006. Sedimentology of an ancient erg margin: the Lower Jurassic Aztec Sandstone, southern Nevada and southern California. Sedimentology 34:661-680.
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