Ferruginous_Sands

Ferruginous Sands

Ferruginous Sands

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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]

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  1. [1]
    "Ferruginous Sands Formation". The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units. British Geological Survey.
  2. [2]
    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)
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    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.


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