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Nugget Sandstone
Geologic Formation in the United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Nugget Sandstone is a Late Triassic to Early Jurassic geologic formation that outcrops in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah, western United States.



In Wyoming, it is composed of a lower hematite-stained siltstone and thin-bedded sandstone. The upper part is a salmon-pink and light-gray, fine- to medium-grained cliff-forming sandstone that exhibits massive bedding to large scale cross-beds of dunes. Thickness ranges up to 86.9 m (285 feet).[1]
Fossil theropod tracks have been reported from the formation.[2]
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Fossil content
Intermediate theropod, sphenosuchian, drepanosaurid and sphenodontian remains are known.[3]
- Other fossils
Ichnofossils
- Batrachopus sp.
- Brachychirotherium sp.
- Brasilichnium sp.
- Cochlichnus sp.
- Diplichnites sp.
- Grallator (Eubrontes)
- Gwyneddichnium sp.
- Octopodichnus sp.
- Otozoum sp.
- cf. Paleohelcura sp.
- Pterichnus sp.
- Scoyenia sp.
- Treptichnus sp.
- ?Acanthichnus sp.
- ?Apatopus sp.
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