Ferruginous Sands
| Ferruginous Sands | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous, ~ | |
.jpg) The Ferruginous Sands at Chale Bay, Isle of Wight | |
| Type | Formation |
| Unit of | Lower Greensand Group |
| Sub-units | Member IV, Member V, Member VI, Whale Chine Member, Member VIII, Ladder Chine Member, Member X, Member XI, Old Walpen Chine Member, New Walpen Chine Member, Member XIV and Member XV. |
| Underlies | Sandrock Formation |
| Overlies | Atherfield Clay Formation |
| Thickness | up to 161 metres |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Weakly cemented Mudstone and Sandstone |
| Location | |
| Region | England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Extent | Isle of Wight, Dorset |
 Exposure of the Ferruginous Sands on the Isle of Wight, shown in Spring green | |
The Ferruginous Sands is a geologic formation in England. It preserves fossils dating back to the Aptian Stage of the Cretaceous period. It consists of "a number of heavily bioturbated coarsening-upward units each comprising dark grey sandy muds or muddy sands passing up into fine-to medium-grained grey to green glauconitic sands."[1] The dinosaur Vectaerovenator inopinatus is known from the formation.[2] Shark teeth are also known from the formation, including those of an indeterminate lamniform shark and Palaeospinax (formerly Synechodus).[3]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Ferruginous Sands Formation". The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units. British Geological Survey.
- ^ Barker, Chris; Naish, Darren; Clarkin, Claire; Hullman, Gabriel; Schneider, Philipp; Gostling, Neil; Farrell, Paul; Ward, Robin; Lockyer, James (2020). "Dryad Data -- Data from: A highly pneumatic 'mid Cretaceous' theropod from the British Lower Greensand". Dryad. doi:10.5061/dryad.8cz8w9gmj.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Batchelor, Trevor J.; Duffin, Christopher J. (July 2019). "First description of sharks' teeth from the Ferruginous Sands Formation (Aptian, Early Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 131 (3–4): 353–359. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2019.06.004. S2CID 199107658.
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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