White Limestone Formation
| White Limestone Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: | |
| File:Lower face at Kirtlington Quarry (geograph 4225329).jpg 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 | United Kingdom |
| Extent | Gloucestershire |
| Type section | |
| Location | Shipton-on-Cherwell Quarry |
| Thickness at type section | Approximately 20 m |
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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
[edit | edit source]For the diverse terrestrial biota of the Kirtlington Mammal Bed, which is on the boundary between the White Limestone and the Forest Marble Formation, see Forest Marble Formation#Paleobiota
Dinosaurs
[edit | edit source]| Dinosaurs reported from the White Limestone Formation | ||||||
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
| Proceratosaurus | P. bradleyi | Minchinhampton | Partial skull and lower jaws | A proceratosaurid theropod, other authors have attributed the strata the specimen was found in to the Forest Marble Formation.[4] | ||
| Dromaeosauridae | Indeterminate | Woodeaton Quarry | Bed 26, Bladon Member | Teeth | ||
| Thyreophora | ||||||
| cf. Paronychodon | ||||||
Mammaliamorphs
[edit | edit source]| 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[5] | W. parva | Allotherian | |||||
| Butlerodon[5] | B. quadratus | Allotherian | |||||
| Kermackodon[5] | K. oxfordensis | Allotherian, formerly placed in Eleutherodon[5] | |||||
| Stereognathus | Indeterminate | Tritylodontid | |||||
See also
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Footnotes
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- ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
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- ^ "10.3 Gloucestershire, England; 4. Forest Marble Formation," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 538.
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References
[edit | edit source]- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
