Lealt Shale
Appearance
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Lealt Shale Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: | |
Type | Geological formation |
Unit of | Great Estuarine Group |
Sub-units | Kildonnan Member, Lonfearn Member |
Underlies | Valtos Sandstone Formation |
Overlies | Elgol Sandstone Formation |
Thickness | Between 45 and 50 m |
Lithology | |
Primary | Mudstone |
Other | Limestone |
Location | |
Region | Europe |
Country | Scotland |
Extent | Inner Hebrides |
Type section | |
Named for | Lealt, Skye |
Named by | Harris and Hudson |
Location | Cliffs east of Lonfearn (partial), Coastal exposure 2.5 km north of Kildonnan, Eigg (partial) |
Year defined | 1980 |
Thickness at type section | Lonfearn: 26 to 30 m (partial) Kildonnan: 23 m (partial) |
The Lealt Shale Formation is a Middle Jurassic geologic formation in Scotland. Fossil ornithopod, theropod and stegosaur tracks, a theropod dinosaur tooth and the pterosaur Dearc have been reported from the formation.[1][2][3] The lithology consists of silty fissile mudstones with subordinate thin limestones.[4]
Fossil content
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Dinosaurs
[edit]Theropoda
[edit]Theropod of the Lealt Shale Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
Theropoda Indet. | Indeterminate | Tooth |
Pterosaurs
[edit]Pterosaurs of the Lealt Shale Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
Dearc[5] | D. sgiathanach | A angustinaripterin rhamphorhynchid |
Fish
[edit]Fishes of the Lealt Shale Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
Archaeotolithus[6] | A. eiggensis | A ray-finned fish | ||||
A. invernizziae | ||||||
Leptolepis[6] | L. flexuosus | a leptolepid fish | ||||
L. skyensis |
See also
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ^ Young, Chloe M. E.; Hendrickx, Christophe; Challands, Thomas J.; Foffa, Davide; Ross, Dugald A.; Butler, Ian B.; Brusatte, Stephen L. (May 2019). "New theropod dinosaur teeth from the Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye, Scotland". Scottish Journal of Geology. 55 (1): 7–19. doi:10.1144/sjg2018-020. hdl:20.500.11820/063549bc-2a00-4ddc-bcf6-a1bc2f872c26. ISSN 0036-9276. S2CID 134102042.
- ^ dePolo, Paige E.; Brusatte, Stephen L.; Challands, Thomas J.; Foffa, Davide; Wilkinson, Mark; Clark, Neil D. L.; Hoad, Jon; Pereira, Paulo Victor Luiz Gomes da Costa; Ross, Dugald A.; Wade, Thomas J. (11 March 2020). Fiorillo, Anthony R. (ed.). "Novel track morphotypes from new tracksites indicate increased Middle Jurassic dinosaur diversity on the Isle of Skye, Scotland". PLOS ONE. 15 (3): e0229640. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0229640. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 7065758.
- ^ "Lealt Shale Formation". BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ Jagielska, N.; O'Sullivan, M.; Funston, G. F.; Butler, I. B.; Challands, T. J.; Clark, N. D. L.; Fraser, N. C.; Penny, A.; Ross, D. A.; Wilkinson, M.; Brusatte, S. L. (2022). "A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs". Current Biology. 32 (6): 1446–1453.e4. Bibcode:2022CBio...32E1446J. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.073. hdl:10023/27028. PMID 35196508. S2CID 247013664.
- ^ a b Schwarzhans, W. W.; Wakefield, M. I. (2024). "Otoliths from the Lealt Shale Formation, Great Estuarine Group, Middle Jurassic (Bathonian), Inner Hebrides, Scotland". Scottish Journal of Geology. 60 (2): 002. Bibcode:2024ScJG...60....2S. doi:10.1144/sjg2024-002.
References
[edit]- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.