Lossiemouth Sandstone
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The Lossiemouth Sandstone is a Late Triassic
(Carnian) geologic formation. Dinosaur
remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
Late Triassic
The Late Triassic is in the geologic timescale the third and final of three epochs of the Triassic period. The corresponding series is known as the Upper Triassic. In the past it was sometimes called the Keuper, after a German lithostratigraphic group that has a roughly corresponding age...
(Carnian) geologic formation. Dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
Paleofauna
| Vertebrate Vertebrate Vertebrates are animals that are members of the subphylum Vertebrata . Vertebrates are the largest group of chordates, with currently about 58,000 species described. Vertebrates include the jawless fishes, bony fishes, sharks and rays, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds... s reported from the Lossiemouth Sandstone |
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
Dasygnathus |
D. longidens |
Renamed Ornithosuchus longidens |
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Erpetosuchus Erpetosuchus Erpetosuchus is an extinct genus of crurotarsan from the Late Triassic. It was first described by E. T. Newton in 1894 for remains found in northeastern Scotland, with more remains found in the United States in recent years. Erpetosuchus is the sister-taxon to Crocodylomorpha.The type species of... |
E. Granti |
A Crurotarsan Crurotarsi The Crurotarsi are a group of archosauriformes, represented today by the crocodiles,... |
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Hyperodapedon Hyperodapedon Hyperodapedon is a genus of rhynchosaur from the late Triassic period . The type species of Scaphonyx , Scaphonyx fischeri that once thought to be a dinosaur, is now known to be based on dubious material and therefore should be a nomen dubium... |
H. gordoni |
A Rhynchosaur Rhynchosaur Rhynchosaurs were a group of Triassic diapsid reptiles related to the archosaurs.-Description:Rhynchosaurs were herbivores, and at times abundant , with stocky bodies and a powerful beak... |
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Leptopleuron Leptopleuron Leptopleuron is a genus of an extinct procolophonid that lived in dry lands of the late Triassic of Scotland. Its fossils were found in Lossiemouth Sandstone.... |
L. lacertinum |
A Procolophonid Procolophonid The Procolophonids - family Procolophonidae - are a group of small reptiles. Skulls have been discovered, roughly 5 cm in diameter.... |
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Ornithosuchus Ornithosuchus Ornithosuchus is an extinct genus of crurotarsan from the Late Triassic Lossiemouth Sandstone of Scotland... |
O. longidens |
An Ornithosuchid |
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O. taylori |
Junior synonym of O. longidens |
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O. woodwardi |
Junior synonym of O. longidens |
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Saltopus Saltopus Saltopus is a genus of very small bipedal dinosauriform, roughly 60 centimeters long, not much bigger than a rabbit, that was discovered in Scotland by Friedrich von Huene in 1910. It was a late Triassic carnivore. Probably the size of a small cat, with hollow bones like those of a bird,... |
S. elginensis |
"Partial postcranial skeleton." |
A Dinosauriform |
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Scleromochlus Scleromochlus Scleromochlus is an extinct genus of small avemetatarsalian from the Late Triassic period. A lightly built cursorial animal, its phylogenetic position has been debated; as different analyses have found it to be either the basal-most ornithodiran, the sister-taxon to Pterosauria, or a basal member... |
S. taylori |
An Avemetatarsalian |
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Stagonolepis Stagonolepis Stagonolepis is an extinct genus of aetosaur. It was about long.An aetosaur, Stagonolepis was a quadrupedal animal covered in thick armoured scales that ran down the length of the its body. A slow-moving browser, it would have used this heavy body armour to repel attacks from contemporary... |
S. robertsoni]] |
An Aetosaur Aetosaur Aetosaurs are an extinct order of heavily armoured, medium- to large-sized Late Triassic herbivorous archosaurs. They have small heads, upturned snouts, erect limbs, and a body covered by plate-like scutes. All aetosaurs belong to the family Stagonolepididae... |
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Telerpeton |
T. elginense |
Junior synonym of Leptopleuron |
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