Forest Sandstone
| Forest Sandstone | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Hettangian-Sinemurian ~ | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Unit of | Karoo Supergroup Upper Karoo Group |
| Underlies | Batoka Formation |
| Overlies | Pebbly Arkose Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 20°00′S 28°24′E / 20.0°S 28.4°E |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 35°00′S 5°06′E / 35.0°S 5.1°E |
| Region | South-central Africa |
| Country | Botswana Zambia Zimbabwe |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Forests of Nyamandlovu District, Zimbabwe |
| Named by | A.M. MacGregor, Zimbabwe Geological Survey |
The Forest Sandstone is a geological formation in southern Africa, dating to roughly between 200 and 190 million years ago and covering the Hettangian to Sinemurian stages of the Jurassic Period in the Mesozoic Era. As its name suggests, it consists mainly of sandstone.
Fossils of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus and the primitive sauropod Vulcanodon have been recovered from the Forest Sandstone.