Bromsgrove Sandstone
| Bromsgrove Sandstone | |
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Stratigraphic range: Anisian ~ | |
| Type | Formation |
| Unit of | Sherwood Sandstone Group |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone |
| Other | Shale, conglomerate, marl |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 52.7°N 2.3°W / 52.7; -2.3 |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 15.6°N 10.8°E / 15.6; 10.8 |
| Region | England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
  Bromsgrove Sandstone (the United Kingdom)
 Bromsgrove Sandstone (England)
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The Bromsgrove Sandstone is a geologic formation of the Sherwood Sandstone Group in England. It preserves fossils and ichnofossils of Chirotherium barthii, and Chirotherium sickleri, dating back to the Middle Triassic (Anisian) period.
Fossil content
- Bromsgroveia walkeri
- Bromsgroviscorpio willsi
- Ceratodus laevissimus
- Cyclotosaurus leptognathus, C. pachygnathus
- Langeronyx brodiei
- Mesophonus perornatus, M. pulcherrimus
- Palaeosaurus cylindrodon
- Rhombopholis scutulata
- Spongiophonus pustulosus
- Stenoscorpio gracilis, S. pseudogracilis
- Willsiscorpio bromsgroviensis
- Acrodus sp.
- Dipteronotus sp.
- ?Gyrolepis sp.
- Mastodonsaurus sp.
- Archosauria indet.
- Dinosauriformes indet.
- Nothosauria indet.
- Rhynchosauridae indet.