Broome Sandstone Explained

Broome Sandstone
Type:	Geological formation
Age:	Valanginian-Barremian ~
Period:	Barremian
Prilithology:	Sandstone
Otherlithology:	Mudstone, siltstone, conglomerate
Region:	Western Australia
Coordinates:	-17.5°N 122.1°W
Paleocoordinates:	-50.5°N 86.9°W
Unitof:	Dampier Group
Underlies:	Melligo Sandstone
Overlies:	Jarlemai Siltstone (Unconformity), Broome Buchia Beds, Baleine Formation
Thickness:	300m (1,000feet)
Extent:	Carnarvon Basin  Bedout Sub-basin

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.^{[1] [2] [3]}

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with ornithischian tracks
    • Stegosaur tracks

References

Bibliography

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

Notes and References

1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
2. Web site: Broome Sandstone. Geoscience Australia and Australian Stratigraphy Commission. Australian Stratigraphic Units Database. 25 August 2018.
3. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=collectionSearch&collection_no=185928 Yanijarri-Lurujarri