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Lossiemouth Sandstone
Lossiemouth Sandstone
Stratigraphic range: Carnian–Rhaetian; ~237–201.3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	New Red Sandstone Supergroup
Underlies	Stotfield Cherty Rock Formation
Overlies	Burghead Sandstone Formation or unconformably on Devonian beds
Thickness	up to 30 m (98 ft)
Lithology
Primary	Sandstone
Location
Coordinates	57°42′N 3°18′W / 57.7°N 3.3°W
Approximate paleocoordinates	34°00′N 0°54′W / 34.0°N 0.9°W
Region	Moray Firth
Country	Scotland
Type section
Named for	Lossiemouth
	Lossiemouth Sandstone (the United Kingdom) Lossiemouth Sandstone (Scotland)

The Lossiemouth Sandstone is a Middle to Late Triassic (Ladinian to Norian) age geological formation. It is exposed on the south side of the Moray Firth near Lossiemouth and near Golspie in Sutherland.^[1] Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[2]

Fossil content

Vertebrates reported from the Lossiemouth Sandstone
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Material	Notes	Images
Dasygnathoides	D. longidens				Nomen dubium
Brachyrhinodon	B. taylori				A rhynchocephalian
Erpetosuchus	E. granti				A Pseudosuchian
Hyperodapedon	H. gordoni				A rhynchosaur
Leptopleuron	L. lacertinum				A procolophonid
Ornithosuchus	O. woodwardi				An ornithosuchid
Ornithosuchus	O. taylori				Junior synonym of O. woodwardi
Saltopus^[3]	S. elginensis^[3]			"Partial postcranial skeleton"^[3]	A dinosauriform previously classified as a specimen of Leptopleuron
Scleromochlus	S. taylori				A possible avemetatarsalian
Stagonolepis	S. robertsoni				An aetosaur
Telerpeton	T. elginense				Junior synonym of Leptopleuron

^ British Geological Survey. "Lossiemouth Sandstone Formation". The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units.
^ Weishampel et al., 2004, "Dinosaur distribution." pp.517-607
^ ^a ^b ^c "Table 2.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 26.

Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 21 February 2019

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G. Tresise and W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1997. The Tracks of Triassic Vertebrates: Fossil Evidence from North-West England. 1-204