Sharp's Hill Formation Explained

Sharp's Hill Formation
Type:	Geological formation
Period:	Bathonian
Prilithology:	Mudstone Marl Limestone
Namedfor:	Sharp's Hill Quarry
Region:	England
Unitof:	Great Oolite Group
Underlies:	Taynton Limestone Formation
Overlies:	Chipping Norton Limestone, Horsehay Sand Formation
Thickness:	up to 5 m

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

• 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. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
2. Web site: Sharp's Hill Formation . . BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units . 2 June 2019.
3. Web site: Sharp's Hill Quarry citation. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 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.