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White Limestone Formation

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.[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]

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  1. [1]
    "The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details White Limestone Formation". British Geological Survey. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  2. [2]
    Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  3. [3]
    Wills, Simon; Bernard, Emma Louise; Brewer, Philippa; Underwood, Charlie J.; Ward, David J. (1 April 2019). "Palaeontology, stratigraphy and sedimentology of Woodeaton Quarry (Oxfordshire) and a new microvertebrate site from the White Limestone Formation (Bathonian, Jurassic)". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 130 (2): 170–186. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2019.02.003. ISSN 0016-7878. S2CID 135409990.
  4. [4]
    Mao, Fangyuan; Brewer, Philippa; Hooker, Jerry J.; Meng, Jin (31 December 2022). "New allotherian specimens from the Middle Jurassic Woodeaton Quarry (Oxfordshire) and implications for haramiyidan diversity and phylogeny". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 20 (1): 1–37. doi:10.1080/14772019.2022.2097021. ISSN 1477-2019. S2CID 251708147.

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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