{{Short description|Geological formation in Western Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox rockunit | name = Broome Sandstone | image =File:Broome Sandstone.png | caption =Part of a sauropod trackway in the Broome Sandstone. Photographed around 2012.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Thulborn |first=Tony |date=2012-05-25 |title=Impact of Sauropod Dinosaurs on Lagoonal Substrates in the Broome Sandstone (Lower Cretaceous), Western Australia |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=7 |issue=5 |article-number=e36208 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0036208 |doi-access=free |pmid=22662116 |pmc=3360740 |bibcode=2012PLoSO...736208T |issn=1932-6203}}</ref> | type = Geological formation | age = Valanginian-Barremian<br />~{{fossilrange|140|126}} | period = Barremian | prilithology = Sandstone | otherlithology = Mudstone, siltstone, conglomerate | namedfor = | namedby = | region = Western Australia | country = Australia | coordinates = {{coord|17.5|S|122.1|E|display=inline,title}} | paleocoordinates = {{coord|50.5|S|86.9|E|display=inline}} | unitof = Dampier Group | subunits = | underlies = Melligo Sandstone | overlies = Jarlemai Siltstone (Unconformity), Broome Buchia Beds, Baleine Formation | thickness = {{convert|300|m|ft|abbr=on}} | extent = Carnarvon Basin<br /> Bedout Sub-basin | area = | map = {{Location map+ | Australia | relief = 1 | width = 250 | float = center | places = {{Location map~ | Australia | lat_deg = -17.5 | lon_deg = 122.1 | mark = Green pog.svg | marksize = 12 }} }} | map_caption = }}
The '''Broome Sandstone''', formerly known as the '''Broome Beds''', is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation found in Western Australia, and formerly considered part of Dampier Group. Fossil sauropod tracks, belonging to an unknown ichnotaxon, and stegosaur tracks belonging to the ichnogenus and species ''Garbina roeorum'' have been reported from the formation since the 1990s.<ref name="dinosaurdistribution">Weishampel, ''et al''. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://dbforms.ga.gov.au/pls/www/geodx.strat_units.sch_full?wher=stratno=2645|title= Broome Sandstone|last= |first= |date= |publisher= Geoscience Australia and Australian Stratigraphy Commission|work = Australian Stratigraphic Units Database|access-date= 25 August 2018|quote=}}</ref><ref name=FW>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=185928 Yanijarri-Lurujarri] at Fossilworks.org</ref>
== See also == * List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations ** List of stratigraphic units with ornithischian tracks *** Stegosaur tracks
== References == {{Reflist}}
=== Bibliography === * {{citation |last1=Weishampel |first1=David B. |author2-link=Peter Dodson |last2=Dodson |first2=Peter |author3-link=Halszka Osmólska |last3=Osmólska |first3=Halszka |year=2004 |title=The Dinosauria, 2nd edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vtZFDb_iw40C |publisher=Berkeley: University of California Press |pages=1–880 |access-date=2019-02-21 |isbn=0-520-24209-2 |author1-link=David B. Weishampel }}
== Further reading == * S. W. Salisbury, A. Romilio, M. C. Herne, R. T. Tucker, and J. P. Nair. 2016. The Dinosaurian Ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany Area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 16. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(6, suppl.):1-152
Category:Geologic formations of Australia Category:Cretaceous System of Australia Category:Early Cretaceous Australia Category:Barremian Stage Category:Valanginian Stage Category:Sandstone formations Category:Deltaic deposits Category:Lagoonal deposits Category:Ichnofossiliferous formations Category:Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of Oceania Category:Paleontology in Australia Category:Geology of Western Australia Category:Kimberley (Western Australia)