The White Limestone Formation is a
Bathonian geologic
formation in the
United Kingdom, dating to the
Middle Jurassic
The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period. It lasted from about 174.1 to 163.5 million years ago. Fossils of land-dwelling animals, such as dinosaurs, from the Middle Jurassic are relatively rare, but geological formations co ...
, 168.3 to 166.1 million years ago. Fossil
sauropod
Sauropoda (), whose members are known as sauropods (; from '' sauro-'' + '' -pod'', 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs. Sauropods had very long necks, long tails, small heads (relative to the rest of their bo ...
tracks have been reported from the formation.
[Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.] 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
Woodeaton Quarry is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Oxford in Oxfordshire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
This site exposes a sequence of rocks dating to the Middle Jurassic around 167 million years ago bel ...
locality has yielded microvertebrates.
Paleobiota
Dinosaurs
Mammaliamorphs
See also
*
List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
**
List of stratigraphic units with sauropodomorph tracks
***
Sauropod tracks
Footnotes
References
* Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. .
Bathonian Stage
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