Sharp's Hill Formation

Sharp's Hill Formation
Stratigraphic range: Bathonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Type locality (Sharp's Hill Quarry)
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Great Oolite Group
Underlies	Taynton Limestone Formation
Overlies	Chipping Norton Limestone, Horsehay Sand Formation
Thickness	up to 5 m
Lithology
Primary	Mudstone Marl Limestone
Location
Region	England
Country	United Kingdom
Type section
Named for	Sharp'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

• Megalosaurus bucklandii ^[4]
• Cetiosaurus sp. (sauropod indet)
• "Eoplophysis" ( Omosaurus ) vetustus (stegosaurid indet)

See also

• Earth sciences portal
• Paleontology portal
• Dinosaurs portal

• 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". BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
3. "Sharp's Hill Quarry citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 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.