Английская Википедия:Aztec Sandstone
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The Aztec Sandstone is an Early Jurassic geological formation of primarily eolian sand from which fossil pterosaur tracks have been recovered.[1] The formation is exposed in the Mojave Desert of Arizona, California and Nevada. Aztec Sandstone is named after the Aztec Tank,[2] a lake in the Spring Mountain region of Nevada.
Description
The Aztec Sandstone is made up of two units. The lower resistant sandstone unit (Шаблон:Convert thick) is tan to off-white in outcrops but pinkish in fresh exposures. Crosbedded lenses can easily be observed. Frosted and pitted quartz grains well-cemented by silica are described by Evans in 1958 and 1971. The upper and less resistant unit (200m thick) consists of alternating white quartz arenites and red to brown silty sands.[3]
Vertebrate paleofauna
The formation has provided the following ichnofossils attributed to vertebrates:[1]
| Ichnofossils of the Aztec Sandstone | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | Location | Member | Abundance | Notes | Images |
| Anchisauripus[4] | Reclassified as Grallator | |||||
| Brasilichnium | ||||||
| Grallator[5] | ||||||
| Navahopus | ||||||
| Octopodichnus | ||||||
| Pteraichnus[6] | ||||||
| Skolithos | ||||||
See also
- List of fossil sites
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in California
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Nevada
References
Bibliography
- Шаблон:Cite Q
- Lockley, M.; Harris, J.D.; and Mitchell, L. 2008. "A global overview of pterosaur ichnology: tracksite distribution in space and time." Zitteliana. B28. p. 187-198. Шаблон:ISSN.
- Шаблон:Cite Q
- Hilton, Richard P. 2003. Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California. Berkeley: University of California Press. 318 pp.
Further reading
- R. E. Reynolds. 1986. California trackways from the Lower Jurassic Aztec Sandstone. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Abstracts with Program 24
Шаблон:Chronostratigraphy of Nevada
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Aztec Sandstone at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Mescal Range at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ Listed as "cf. Anchisauripus" in "Appendix: Summary of the Mesozoic Reptilian Fossils of California," Hilton (2003) p. 265
- ↑ Listed as "cf. Grallator" in "Appendix: Summary of the Mesozoic Reptilian Fossils of California," in Hilton (2003) p. 265
- ↑ Lockley, et al. (2008)
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