Earth:White Limestone Formation
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White Limestone Formation Stratigraphic range: Bathonian | |
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![]() White Limestone Formation exposed at Kirtlington Quarry | |
Type | Geological formation |
Unit of | Great Oolite Group |
Sub-units | Shipton Member, Ardley Member, Bladon Member |
Underlies | Forest Marble Formation |
Overlies | Hampen Formation, Rutland Formation |
Thickness | Up to 30 m |
Lithology | |
Primary | Limestone |
Other | Mudstone Clay Marl |
Location | |
Region | England |
Country | ![]() |
Extent | Gloucestershire |
Type section | |
Location | Shipton-on-Cherwell Quarry |
Thickness at type section | Approximately 20 m |
The White Limestone Formation is a Bathonian geologic formation in the United Kingdom , dating to the Middle Jurassic, 168.3 to 166.1 million years ago.[1] Fossil sauropod tracks have been reported from the formation.[2] It is the lateral equivalent of the Blisworth Limestone. It predominantly consists of grey-yellow limestone, typically wackestone and packstone with subordinate ooidal grainstone. The Woodeaton Quarry locality has yielded microvertebrates.[3]
Paleobiota
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs reported from the White Limestone Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
Dromaeosauridae | Indeterminate | Woodeaton Quarry | Bed 26, Bladon Member | Teeth | ||
Thyreophora | ||||||
cf. Paronychodon |
Mammaliamorphs
Mammaliamorphs reported from the White Limestone Formation | |||||||
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Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images | |
Amphitheriidae | Indeterminate | Woodeaton Quarry | Bed 26, Bladon Member | Tooth | |||
Phascolotherium | P. bucklandi | Eutriconodont | |||||
Hahnotherium | H. antiquum | Multituberculata | |||||
Simpsonodon | S. oxfordensis | Docodont | |||||
Woodeatonia[4] | W. parva | Allotherian | |||||
Butlerodon[4] | B. quadratus | Allotherian | |||||
Kermackodon[4] | K. oxfordensis | Allotherian, formerly placed in Eleutherodon[4] | |||||
Stereognathus | Indeterminate | Tritylodontid |
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
Footnotes
- ↑ "The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details White Limestone Formation". British Geological Survey. http://www.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=WHL. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ↑ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ↑ Wills, Simon; Bernard, Emma Louise; Brewer, Philippa; Underwood, Charlie J.; Ward, David J. (2019-04-01). "Palaeontology, stratigraphy and sedimentology of Woodeaton Quarry (Oxfordshire) and a new microvertebrate site from the White Limestone Formation (Bathonian, Jurassic)" (in en). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 130 (2): 170–186. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2019.02.003. ISSN 0016-7878. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787819300197.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Mao, Fangyuan; Brewer, Philippa; Hooker, Jerry J.; Meng, Jin (2022-12-31). "New allotherian specimens from the Middle Jurassic Woodeaton Quarry (Oxfordshire) and implications for haramiyidan diversity and phylogeny" (in en). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 20 (1): 1–37. doi:10.1080/14772019.2022.2097021. ISSN 1477-2019. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2022.2097021.
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.
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