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.Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607. The lithology consists of silty fissile mudstones with subordinate thin limestones.
Fossil content
Dinosaurs
Theropoda Theropod of the Lealt Shale Formation Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images Theropoda Indet. Indeterminate Tooth
Pterosaurs Pterosaurs of the Lealt Shale Formation Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images Dearc D. sgiathanach A angustinaripterin rhamphorhynchid
Fish Fishes of the Lealt Shale Formation Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images Archaeotolithus A. eiggensis A ray-finned fish A. invernizziae Leptolepis L. flexuosus a leptolepid fish L. skyensis
See also
List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations List of stratigraphic units with ornithischian tracks Ornithopod tracks
Footnotes
References Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. .