Broome Sandstone

Broome Sandstone
Broome Sandstone
Stratigraphic range: Valanginian-Barremian; ~140–126 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Part of a sauropod trackway in the Broome Sandstone. Photographed around 2012.
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Dampier Group
Underlies	Melligo Sandstone
Overlies	Jarlemai Siltstone (Unconformity), Broome Buchia Beds, Baleine Formation
Thickness	300 m (980 ft)
Lithology
Primary	Sandstone
Other	Mudstone, siltstone, conglomerate
Location
Coordinates	17°30′S 122°06′E / 17.5°S 122.1°E
Approximate paleocoordinates	50°30′S 86°54′E / 50.5°S 86.9°E
Region	Western Australia
Country	Australia
Extent	Carnarvon Basin; Bedout Sub-basin
	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 since the 1990s.^[2]^[3]^[4]

References[edit]

^ Thulborn, Tony (2012-05-25). "Impact of Sauropod Dinosaurs on Lagoonal Substrates in the Broome Sandstone (Lower Cretaceous), Western Australia". PLOS ONE. 7 (5): e36208. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...736208T. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036208. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 22662116.
^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
^ "Broome Sandstone". Australian Stratigraphic Units Database. Geoscience Australia and Australian Stratigraphy Commission. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
^ Yanijarri-Lurujarri at Fossilworks.org

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