Broome Sandstone
92 occ.
17 taxa (1 genera)
1 countries
Description
The Broome Sandstone, formerly known as the Broome Beds, is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation found in Western Australia, and formerly considered part of Dampier Group. Fossil sauropod tracks, belonging to an unknown ichnotaxon, and stegosaur tracks belonging to the ichnogenus and species Garbina roeorum have been reported from the formation since the 1990s.
Genera
1 genera
Temporal range
252
201
145
66
0 Ma
Top countries
🇦🇺 Australia
92
Depositional environments
Terrestrial indet.
38
Delta plain
37
Lagoonal
17
Top collectors
A. Romilio et al.
6
E. H. Colbert
1
D. Merrilees
1
W. Jones
1
Collection activity by decade
1940s
1
1950s
1
1980s
7
2010s
56