Forest Sandstone

Forest Sandstone
Stratigraphic range: Hettangian-Sinemurian ~200–190 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Dune beds in the Forest Sandstone, Chewore Safari Area, Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe
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 / -20.0; 28.4
Approximate paleocoordinates	35°00′S 5°06′E / 35.0°S 5.1°E / -35.0; 5.1
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
Forest Sandstone (Zimbabwe)

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.^[1] 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.