Valtos Sandstone
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Valtos Sandstone Formation is a Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) formation found in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It is the thickest member of the Great Estuarine Group. The lithology consists of sets of approximately 6 metre thick cross bedded sandstone, capped by thin shelly limestones containing bivalves of the genus Neomiodon Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 6
Dun Dearg, Valtos, Isle of Skye : Scotland - Highland 8705 14459 68000 69002 92525 on foreshore at Valtos, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK (NG 5163 6412). Sauropod and theropod bones found within 1 m of each other.- Elgol tracksite : Scotland - ? 17705 approx. 2 km N of Elgol, on W coastline of the Strathaird peninsula
- Valtos foreshore, Isle of Skye : Scotland - Highland 92525 on the foreshore below Valtos [NG 5178 6361]
- Kilt Rock tracksite : Scotland - Highland 94126 "on a grassy bank below cliffs north of Kilt Rock from which it had fallen"
- Dun Dearg tracksite : Scotland - Highland 28719 94126 on foreshore at Valtos, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
- Carraig Mhor tracksite, Valtos foreshore : Scotland - Western Isles 94126 found at Carraig Mhòr near Valtos (Trotternish Peninsula)
Publication(s)
La base comprend 8 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 N. D. L. Clark, J. D. Boyd, and R. J. Dixon, D. A. Ross. 1995. The first Middle Jurassic dinosaur from Scotland: a cetiosaurid? (Sauropoda) from the Bathonian of the Isle of Skye. Scottish Journal of Geology 31(2):171-176 (https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg31020171)
- ↑1 J. J. Liston. 2004. A re-examination of a Middle Jurassic sauropod limb bone from the Bathonian of the Isle of Skye. Scottish Journal of Geology 40(2):119-122 (https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg40020119)
- ↑1 N. D. L. Clark. 2001. A thyreophoran dinosaur from the Early Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) of the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology 37(1):19-26 (https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg37010019)
- ↑1 N. D. L. Clark, D. A. Ross, and P. Booth. 2005. Dinosaur Tracks from the Kilmaluag Formation (Bathonian, Middle Jurassic) of Score Bay, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK. Ichnos 12:93-104 (https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940590914516)
- ↑1 2 S. L. Brusatte and N. D. L. Clark. 2015. Theropod dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian–Bathonian) of Skye, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology 51(2):157–164 (https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2014-022)
- ↑1 2 P. Marshall. 2005. Theropod dinosaur and other footprints from the Valtos Sandstone Formation (Bathonian, Middle Jurassic) of the Isle of Skye. Scottish Journal of Geology 41(2):97-104 (https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg41020097)
- ↑1 2 3 4 5 T. Blakesley, P. E. dePolo, and D. A. Ross, N. D. L. Clark, S. L. Brusatte. 2025. Small theropod-dominated dinosaur footprint assemblages in the Middle Jurassic Valtos Sandstone and Kilmaluag Formations on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Royal Society Open Science 12(9):251016:1-57 (https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251016)
- ↑1 2 N. D. L. Clark and M. K. Brett-Surman. 2008. A comparison between dinosaur footprints from the Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, and Shell, Wyoming, USA. Scottish Journal of Geology 44(2):139-150 (https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg44020139)
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