Sharp's Hill Formation

Sharp's Hill Formation
Stratigraphic range: Bathonian
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  UK

The Sharp's Hill Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in the United Kingdom. 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

Paleofauna

  • Megalosaurus sp (theropod indet)
  • Cetiosaurus sp (sauropod indet)
  • Omosaurus vetustus (stegosaurid indet)

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.

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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