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. Fossil sauropod 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 locality has yielded microvertebrates.
Paleobiota For the diverse terrestrial biota of the Kirtlington Mammal Bed, which is on the boundary between the White Limestone and the Forest Marble Formation, see Forest Marble Formation#Paleobiota
Dinosaurs Dinosaurs reported from the White Limestone FormationGenusSpeciesLocationStratigraphic positionMaterialNotesImagesProceratosaurusP. bradleyiMinchinhamptonPartial skull and lower jawsA proceratosaurid theropod, other authors have attributed the strata the specimen was found in to the Forest Marble Formation."10.3 Gloucestershire, England; 4. Forest Marble Formation," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 538.DromaeosauridaeIndeterminateWoodeaton QuarryBed 26, Bladon MemberTeethThyreophoracf. Paronychodon
Mammaliamorphs Mammaliamorphs reported from the White Limestone FormationGenusSpeciesLocationStratigraphic positionMaterialNotesImagesAmphitheriidaeIndeterminateWoodeaton QuarryBed 26, Bladon MemberToothPhascolotheriumP. bucklandiEutriconodontHahnotheriumH. antiquumMultituberculataSimpsonodon S. oxfordensisDocodontWoodeatoniaW. parva AllotherianButlerodonB. quadratusAllotherianKermackodon K. oxfordensisAllotherian, formerly placed in EleutherodonStereognathusIndeterminateTritylodontid
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. .