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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]
Sharp's Hill Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: | |
Type | Geological formation |
Unit of | Great Oolite Group |
Underlies | Taynton Limestone Formation |
Overlies | Chipping Norton Limestone, Horsehay Sand Formation |
Thickness | up to 5 m |
Lithology | |
Primary | Mudstone Marl Limestone |
Location | |
Region | England |
Country | UK |
Type section | |
Named for | Sharp's Hill Quarry |
The type locality is the Sharp's Hill Quarry.[3]
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