Earth:Sharp's Hill Formation

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Sharp's Hill Formation
Stratigraphic range: Bathonian
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Type locality (Sharp's Hill Quarry)
TypeGeological formation
Unit ofGreat Oolite Group
UnderliesTaynton Limestone Formation
OverliesChipping Norton Limestone, Horsehay Sand Formation
Thicknessup to 5 m
Lithology
PrimaryMudstone Marl Limestone
Location
RegionEngland
Country UK
Type section
Named forSharp's Hill Quarry

The Sharp's Hill Formation is a Bathonian geologic formation in North Oxfordshire north-east of Milton-under-Wychwood and Minster Lovell in the United Kingdom , dating to around 167 million years ago. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1] It is the lateral equivalent of the Rutland Formation and the Fuller's Earth Formation.[2]

The type locality is the Sharp's Hill Quarry.[3]

Paleofauna

See also

  • List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
    • List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera

Footnotes

  1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  2. British Geological Survey. "Sharp's Hill Formation". https://www.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=SHHB. 
  3. "Sharp's Hill Quarry citation". Natural England. https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/PDFsForWeb/Citation/1000248.pdf. Retrieved 3 June 2020. 
  4. Benson, R. B. J. (2010). A description of Megalosaurus bucklandii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bathonian of the UK and the relationships of Middle Jurassic theropods. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158 (4): 882–935. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00569.x.

References

  • Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN:0-520-24209-2.