Hampen Formation Explained

Hampen Formation
Type:	Geological formation
Period:	Bathonian
Prilithology:	Limestone
Otherlithology:	Marl
Region:	Oxfordshire
Country:	England
Unitof:	Great Oolite Group
Underlies:	White Limestone Formation
Overlies:	Taynton Limestone Formation, Fuller's Earth Formation
Thickness:	4-11 m

The Hampen Formation is a Jurassic geological formation of Bathonian age found in central Southern England.^[1] Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[2] This formation was formerly known as the Hamden Marly Formation or the Hamden Marly Beds.^[1]

Paleofauna

Cetiosaurus sp (sauropod indet)

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera

References

• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hampen Formation . BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units . . 2018-07-09.
2. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.