Forest Marble - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Forest Marble is a geological formation in Europe. It dates back to the Middle Jurassic

Middle Jurassic

The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period. It lasted from 176-161 million years ago. In European lithostratigraphy, rocks of this Middle Jurassic age are called the Dogger....

Ornithischians

Ornithischians of the Forest Marble Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Abundance	Notes	Images
Alocodon Alocodon Alocodon is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of what is now Portugal. It was described in 1973 by Richard Anthony Thulborn. It had small ornithopod-like teeth with vertical grooves...	Indeterminate	Oxfordshire
Hylaeosaurus Hylaeosaurus Hylaeosaurus is the most obscure of the three animals used by Sir Richard Owen to first define the new group Dinosauria, in 1842. The original specimen, recovered by Gideon Mantell from the Tilgate Forest in the south of England in 1832, now resides in the Natural History Museum of London, where...	Indeterminate	Wiltshire
Iguanodon Iguanodon Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs...	Indeterminate	Oxfordshire

Saurischians

Saurischians reported from the Forest Marble Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Material	Notes	Images
Bothriospondylus Bothriospondylus Bothriospondylus is an dubious genus of sauropod dinosaur. It lived during the Late Jurassic.The type species, Bothriospondylus suffossus, was described by Richard Owen in 1875. The specific epithet suffossus means "undermined" in Latin, a reference to the fact that pleurocoels had hollowed out...	B. robustus	Wiltshire		"Dorsal vertebra."
	Indeterminate	Oxfordshire
Cardiodon Cardiodon Cardiodon was a genus of sauropod dinosaur, based on a tooth from the late Bathonian-age Middle Jurassic Forest Marble Formation of Wiltshire, England...	C. rugulosus	Wiltshire
Cetiosaurus Cetiosaurus Cetiosaurus meaning 'whale lizard', from the Greek cetus/κητος meaning 'sea monster' and saurus/σαυρος meaning 'lizard', was a sauropod dinosaur from the Mid to Late Jurassic Period in what are now Europe and Africa. It is estimated to have been about long and to have weighed roughly...	C. glymptonensis	Oxfordshire		"Caudal vertebrae."
	C. oxoniensis	Gloucestershire			Actually indeterminate sauropod remains.
Megalosaurus Megalosaurus Megalosaurus is a genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period of Europe...	M. bucklandii	Gloucestershire			Actually indeterminate theropod remains.
	Indeterminate	Dorset Oxfordshire			Actually indeterminate theropod remains.
Proceratosaurus Proceratosaurus Proceratosaurus is a genus of small-sized carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England. It was originally thought to be an ancestor of Ceratosaurus, due to the similar small crest on its snout...	P. bradleyi	Gloucestershire		"Partial skull and mandible."

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