| Lossiemouth Sandstone | |
| Type: | Geological formation |
| Age: | Carnian–Rhaetian ~ |
| Period: | Norian |
| Prilithology: | Sandstone |
| Namedfor: | Lossiemouth |
| Region: | Moray Firth |
| Coordinates: | 57.7°N -3.3°W |
| Paleocoordinates: | 34°N -0.9°W |
| Unitof: | New Red Sandstone Supergroup |
| Underlies: | Stotfield Cherty Rock Formation |
| Overlies: | Burghead Sandstone Formation or unconformably on Devonian beds |
| Thickness: | up to 30m (100feet) |
The Lossiemouth Sandstone is a Middle to Late Triassic (Ladinian to Norian) age geological formation. It is exposed on the south side of the Moray Firth near Lossiemouth and near Golspie in Sutherland.[1] Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2]
| Vertebrates reported from the Lossiemouth Sandstone | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
| Dasygnathoides | D. longidens | Nomen dubium | ||||
| Brachyrhinodon | B. taylori | A rhynchocephalian | ||||
| Erpetosuchus | E. granti | A Pseudosuchian | ||||
| Hyperodapedon | H. gordoni | A rhynchosaur | ||||
| Leptopleuron | L. lacertinum | A procolophonid | ||||
| Ornithosuchus | O. woodwardi | An ornithosuchid | ||||
| O. taylori | Junior synonym of O. woodwardi | |||||
| Saltopus[3] | S. elginensis | "Partial postcranial skeleton" | A dinosauriform previously classified as a specimen of Leptopleuron | |||
| Scleromochlus | S. taylori | A possible avemetatarsalian | ||||
| Stagonolepis | S. robertsoni | An aetosaur | ||||
| Telerpeton | T. elginense | Junior synonym of Leptopleuron | ||||