Taynton Limestone Formation: Difference between revisions

The '''Taynton Limestone'''<ref name="middlejurassicdistribution">Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Middle Jurassic, Europe)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 538–541. {{ISBN|0-520-24209-2}}.</ref> is a geological [[Formation (geology)|formation]] in [[Oxfordshire]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. It dates to the [[Middle Jurassic]], mid-[[Bathonian]] stage.<ref name=benson2009>Benson, R.B.J. (2009). "An assessment of variability in theropod dinosaur remains from the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of Stonesfield and New Park Quarry, UK and taxonomic implications for ''Megalosaurus bucklandii'' and ''Iliosuchus incognitus''." ''Palaeontology'', {{doi|10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00884.x}}</ref> It predominantly consists of [[Oolite|ooidal]] [[grainstone]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=TY|title=Taynton Limestone Formation|last=|first=|date=|website=BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units|publisher=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-09-21}}</ref> The term "'''Stonesfield Slate'''" refers to slaty limestone horizons within the formation that during the 18th and 19th centuries were extensively quarried for use in roof tiling within the vicinity of [[Stonesfield]], [[Oxfordshire]]. Previously these were thought to belong to the [[Sharp's Hill Formation]], but boreholes and shaft sections suggest that at least three horizons within the Taynton Limestone were quarried for the slate.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Boneham|first1=B.F.W.|last2=Wyatt|first2=R.J.|date=January 1993|title=The stratigraphical position of the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) Stonesfield Slate of Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, UK|journal=Proceedings of the Geologists' Association|volume=104|issue=2|pages=123–136|doi=10.1016/S0016-7878(08)80014-4|bibcode=1993PrGA..104..123B }}</ref> These horizons are well known for producing a diverse set of fossils including those of plants, insects as well as vertebrates, including some of the earliest known mammals, pterosaurs as well as those of first dinosaur ever described, ''[[Megalosaurus]].''

|A theropod dinosaur. Not distingusiable from ''[[Megalosaurus]]''

|A [[Megalosauridae|Megalosauridmegalosaurid]] theropod dinosaur, also present in the [[Chipping Norton Formation|Chipping Norton]] and [[Sharp's Hill Formation]]s

|Isolated epidermal scales, coracoid, plastron fragment<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Anquetin|first1=Jérémy|last2=Claude|first2=Julien|date=2008|title=Reassessment of the oldest British turtle: Protochelys from the Middle Jurassic Stonesfield Slate of Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, UK|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228495390|journal=Geodiversitas|volume=30|issue=2|pages=331–344|via=}}</ref>

|AAn indeterminate [[Teleosauridae|Teleosaurid]]. Probably the same animal as ''Teleosaurus cadomensis''.

! colspan="7" align="center" |'''[[Mammaliamorph]]s of the Stonesfield Slate'''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Stonesfield Slate, near Oxford (BMNH fish)|url=httpshttp://paleobiodbwww.fossilworks.org/classiccgi-bin/basicCollectionSearchbridge.pl?a=collectionSearch&collection_no=59357131844|titleaccess-date=Stonesfield17 SlateDecember quarries|last=|first=|date=2021|website=paleobiodbfossilworks.org|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-10-05}}</ref>

! colspan="57" align="center" |'''[[Invertebrate]]s of the Stonesfield Slate'''

'''Genus:'[[Blapsium]]''

* |''[[Blapsium]]B. egertoni''

The flora known from the Stonesfield Slate comprises a relatively diverse flora, with 25 morphospecies present. It primarily represents a coastal environment, perhaps seasonally dry with mangrove like environments. It is a noticeably different assembelageassemblage than the Yorkshire floras of equivalent age, possibly because the latter is thought to represent a deltaic, wetland environment.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Cleal|first1=C. J.|last2=Rees|first2=P. M.|date=July 2003|title=The Middle Jurassic flora from Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, UK|journal=Palaeontology|volume=46|issue=4|pages=739–801|doi=10.1111/1475-4983.00319|issn=0031-0239|doi-access=free|bibcode=2003Palgy..46..739C }}</ref>

|''[[Pachypteris|''Pachyptermis'']]''

|Member of Peltaspermales[[Corystospermales]]

|''[[Bucklandia]]''

|Member of Bennettitales formerly ''Conites bucklandii''<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Doweld|first=Alexander B.|date=October 2012|title=(2099) Proposal to conserve the name Bucklandia Brongn. against Bucklandia Sternb. and Conites (fossil Gymnospermae , Cycadeoideopsida )|journal=Taxon|volume=61|issue=5|pages=1131–1132|doi=10.1002/tax.615033|issn=0040-0262|doi-access=free}}</ref>

|''[[Masculostrobus]]''

|''[[Classostrobus]]''

|''[[Carpolithes]]''

|''[[Phyllites]]''

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