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Broome Sandstone, Broome Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Formation	Broome Sandstone
Age:	140 - 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Interval	Valanginian - Barremian
Lithology	sandstone/siltstone, sandstone
Number of Collections	22
Number of Occurrences	48

Recorded Sample Locations

Location	Region	Stratigraphic Name
Minyirr tracksite	Broome Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Broome Sandstone
Reddell Beach tracksite	Broome Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Broome Sandstone
James Price Point tracksite	Broome Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Broome Sandstone
UQL-DP35 tracksite	Broome Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Broome Sandstone

Recorded Fossils

Accepted Name	Type	Hierarchy	Age
Amblydactylus kortmeyeri species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Iguanodontidae : Amblydactylus : *Amblydactylus kortmeyeri*	139.8 - 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Garbina roeorum species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Garbina : *Garbina roeorum*	139.8 - 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Luluichnus mueckei species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Luluichnus : *Luluichnus mueckei*	139.8 - 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Thyreophora unranked clade	99	Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Lusitanosaurus : Thyreophora	139.8 - 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Walmadanyichnus hunteri species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Walmadanyichnus : *Walmadanyichnus hunteri*	139.8 - 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Wintonopus latomorum species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Wintonopus : *Wintonopus latomorum*	139.8 - 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Wintonopus middletonae species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Wintonopus : *Wintonopus middletonae*	139.8 - 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Dinosauria order	4	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria	139.8 - 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Megalosauropus broomensis species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Megalosauropus : *Megalosauropus broomensis*	139.8 - 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Oobardjidama foulkesi species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Oobardjidama : *Oobardjidama foulkesi*	139.8 - 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Sauropoda unranked clade	99	Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Sauropoda	139.8 - 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Theropoda unranked clade	99	Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Theropoda	139.8 - 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Yangtzepus clarkei species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Yangtzepus : *Yangtzepus clarkei*	139.8 - 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

References

Colbert E. H., Merrilees D. (1967) Cretaceous dinosaur footprints from Western Australia, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 50 1, 21-25

Long J. A. (1992) Cretaceous dinosaur ichnofauna from Broome, Western Australia, The Beagle: Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 9 1, 262

Thulborn T. (2012) Impact of sauropod dinosaurs on lagoonal substrates in the Broome Sandstone (Lower Cretaceous), Western Australia, PLoS ONE 7 5, 36208:1-22 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036208

Salisbury S. W., Romilio A., et al (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 doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1269539

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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