The Luxembourg Sandstone (French: Grès de Luxembourg) is a geologic formation in Luxembourg. It exists along the eastern margin of the Paris Basin. Sandstone units continuous with the Luxembourg Sandstone also occur in France. It is Early Jurassic in age. It predominantly outcrops in a belt extending through south-central Luxembourg. It up to 100 metres thick and predominantly consists of carbonaceous poorly cemented sandstone and sandy limestone

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Ichthyosaurus communis ''Ichthyosaurus'' (derived from Greek ' () meaning 'fish' and ' () meaning 'lizard') is a genus of ichthyosaurs from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian - Pliensbachian), with possible Late Triassic record, from Europe (Belgium, England, Germany, Swi ...

''Godefroit, 1995 * '' Temnodontosaurus sp.''Delsate & Ezcurra, 2014 * Neotheropoda indet. * Plesiosauria indet. * cf. Theropoda indet. ;Fish * '' Halonodon luxembourgensis''Duffin & Delsate, 1993 * Hybodontidae indet. ;GastropodsMonari et al., 2011 * '' Pleurotomaria cognata'' * '' P. hennocquii'' * '' P. hettangiensis'' * '' P. wanderbachi'' * '' Ptychomphalus caepa'' * '' P. wehenkeli'' * '' Scurriopsis (Hennocquia) hettangiensis'' * '' Scurriopsis (Scurriopsis) schmidti'' * '' Trochotoma clypeus''

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* D. Delsate and M. D. Ezcurra. 2014. The first Early Jurassic (late Hettangian) theropod dinosaur remains from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Geologica Belgica 17(2):175-181 * S. Monari, M. Valentini, and M. A. Conti. 2011. Earliest Jurassic patellogastropod, vetigastropod, and neritimorph gastropods from Luxembourg with considerations on the Triassic–Jurassic faunal turnover. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56:349-384 * P. Godefroit. 1995. Un crâne d'Ichthyosaurus communis (Reptilia, Ichthyosauria) du Sinémurien supérieur de Lorraine belge. Bulletin de Société belge de Géologie 104(1-2):77-89 * G. Bloos. 1994. Frühe Arietitidae (Ammonoidea) aus dem Hettangium (Angulata-Zone, Unt. Lias) von Württemberg (SW-Deutschland). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 219:1-67 * C. J. Duffin and D. Delsate. 1993. A new myriacanthid holocephalan (Chondrichthyes) from the Early Jurassic of Luxembourg. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1993(11):669-680

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