The Sharp's Hill Formation is a

Bathonian In the geologic timescale the Bathonian is an age (geology), age and stage (stratigraphy), stage of the Middle Jurassic. It lasted from approximately 168.2 ±1.2 annum, Ma to around 165.3 ±1.1 Ma (million years ago). The Bathonian Age succeeds ...

geologic formation in North

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north-east of

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and Minster Lovell in the

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, dating to around 167 million years ago.

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remains diagnostic to the

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level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607. It is the lateral equivalent of the

Rutland Formation The Rutland Formation is a geologic formation in England. It preserves fossils dated to the late Bajocian to Bathonian ages of the Jurassic period, about 169 million years ago. It is the lateral equivalent of the Sharp's Hill Formation and the ...

and the Fuller's Earth Formation. The type locality is the Sharp's Hill Quarry.

Paleofauna

* ''

Megalosaurus ''Megalosaurus'' (meaning "great lizard", from Ancient Greek, Greek , ', meaning 'big', 'tall' or 'great' and , ', meaning 'lizard') is an extinct genus of large carnivorous theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic Epoch (Bathonian stage, 166 ...

bucklandii''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. * ''

Cetiosaurus ''Cetiosaurus'' ( meaning 'whale lizard', from the Greek '/ meaning 'sea monster' (later, 'whale') and '/ meaning 'lizard'), is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period, living about 171 to 165 million years ago ...

'' sp. (sauropod indet) * " Eoplophysis" ('' Omosaurus'') ''vetustus'' (stegosaurid indet)

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* Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. . Bathonian Stage Mudstone formations of the United Kingdom Marl formations Limestone formations of the United Kingdom {{UK-geologic-formation-stub

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