White Limestone Formation
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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. Fossil sauropod tracks have been reported from the formation. 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.
Paleobiota
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
| Dinosaurs reported from the White Limestone Formation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||
| Dromaeosauridae | Indeterminate | Woodeaton Quarry | Bed 26, Bladon Member | Teeth | ||
| Thyreophora | ||||||
| cf. Paronychodon |
Mammaliamorphs
| Mammaliamorphs reported from the White Limestone Formation | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | W. parva | Allotherian | |||||
| Butlerodon | B. quadratus | Allotherian | |||||
| Kermackodon | K. oxfordensis | Allotherian, formerly placed in Eleutherodon | |||||
| Stereognathus | Indeterminate | Tritylodontid |
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations List of stratigraphic units with sauropodomorph tracks Sauropod tracks
Footnotes
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.