Ferruginous Sands Type Formation Unit of Lower Greensand Group Sub-units Member IV, Member V, Member VI, Whale Chine Member, Member VIII, Ladder Chine Member, Member X, Member XI, Old Walpen Chine Member, New Walpen Chine Member, Member XIV and Member XV. Underlies Sandrock Formation Overlies Atherfield Clay Formation Thickness up to 161 metres Primary Weakly cemented Mudstone and Sandstone Region England Country United Kingdom Extent Isle of Wight , Dorset
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] Vectaerovenator inopinatus [ 2] lamniform shark and Palaeospinax Synechodus [ 3]
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^ "Ferruginous Sands Formation" . The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units . British Geological Survey .^ 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 . ^ 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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