List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in England

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Group or Formation Period Notes
Alston Group / Knipe Scar Limestone Carboniferous
Alston Group / Potts Beck Limestone Carboniferous
Ampthill Clay Jurassic
Ancholme Group / Kimmeridge Clay Jurassic
Ancholme Group / Oxford Clay Jurassic
Ashfell Limestone Carboniferous
Aymestry Limestone Formation Silurian
Baggy Sandstones Formation Devonian
Bala Group / Chatwell Flags Formation Ordovician
Palaeogene
Barton Beds Palaeogene
Palaeogene
Bee Low Limestones Carboniferous
Belemnite Marls Jurassic
Bembridge Limestone Palaeogene
Bembridge Marls Palaeogene
Bentham Grit Carboniferous
Jurassic
Black Rock Formation Carboniferous
Cretaceous
Palaeogene
Blue Lias Formation Jurassic
Palaeogene
Bracklesham Beds Palaeogene
Bracklesham Group / Earnley Formation Palaeogene
Bracklesham Group / Elmore Formation Palaeogene
Bracklesham Group / Marsh Farm Formation Palaeogene
Bracklesham Group / Selsey Formation Palaeogene
Bracklesham Group / Wittering Formation Palaeogene
Bringewood Beds Silurian
Brockenhurst Beds Palaeogene
Bromsgrove Sandstone Triassic
Burwell Rock Formation Cretaceous
Calcareous Grit Jurassic
Carboniferous Limestone Carboniferous
Carmarthen Formation Ordovician
Carstone Formation Cretaceous
Caton Shales Carboniferous
Carboniferous
Carboniferous
Carboniferous
Chalk Formation Cretaceous
Cretaceous
Chalk Group / Cretaceous
Chalk Group / Lower Chalk Formation Cretaceous
Chalk Group / Cretaceous
Charmouth Mudstone Formation Jurassic
Chee Tor Limestone Carboniferous
Cheney Longville Formation Ordovician
Chillesford Clay Quaternary
Cretaceous
Clifton Down Limestone Carboniferous
Cockhill Marine Band Carboniferous
Colsterdale Marine Beds Carboniferous
Coral Rag Formation Jurassic
Corallian Oolite Formation Jurassic
Corallian Group / Coral Rag Formation Jurassic
Corallian Group / Kingston Formation Jurassic
Coralline Crag Formation Neogene
Coralline Oolite Formation Jurassic
Cornbrash Formation Jurassic
Jurassic
Crag Group / Norwich Crag Formation Quaternary
Crag Group / Weybourne Crag Formation
Creechbarrow Limestone Palaeogene
Cromer Knoll Formation
Cromer Knoll Group / Spilsby Sandstone Cretaceous
Crossdale Shales Carboniferous
Ordovician
Dartmouth Beds Devonian
Denbury Crinoidal Limestone Devonian
Dent Group / Keisley Limestone Ordovician
Ditton Formation Devonian
Downton Castle Sandstone Silurian
Silurian
Downton Group / Downton Castle Sandstone Silurian
Downton Group / Rushall Formation Silurian
Dufton Shales Ordovician
Durlston Formation Cretaceous
Duyfor Mudstone Ordovician
East Ogwell Limestone Devonian
Eggardon Grit Cretaceous
Elton Beds Silurian
Eyam Limestone Carboniferous
Carboniferous
Farne Group / Scremerston Formation Carboniferous
Forest Hollow Beds Carboniferous
Forest Marble Formation Jurassic
Frome Clay Jurassic
Fuller's Earth Formation Jurassic
Gault Formation Cretaceous
Cretaceous
Great Oolite Formation Jurassic
Great Oolite Group / Bath Oolite Formation Jurassic
Great Oolite Group / Chipping Norton Limestone Jurassic
Great Oolite Group / Cornbrash Formation Jurassic
Great Oolite Group / Forest Marble Formation Jurassic
Great Oolite Group / Hampen Marly Formation Jurassic
Great Oolite Group / Sharp's Hill Formation Jurassic
Great Oolite Group / Taynton Limestone Jurassic
Great Oolite Group / Jurassic
Great Scar Limestone Group / Carboniferous
Great Scar Limestone Group / Danny Bridge Formation Carboniferous
Greta Grit Carboniferous
Habberley Shale Ordovician
Jurassic
Hampen Marly Formation Jurassic
Hartshill Formation Cambrian
Harwich Formation Palaeogene
Hastings Formation Cretaceous
Hastings Beds Cretaceous
Hastings Beds Group / Wadhurst Clay Cretaceous
Hastings Group / Grinstead Clay Cretaceous
Headon Formation Palaeogene
Headon Hill Formation Palaeogene
Hempstead Formation Palaeogene
Hilton Plant Beds Permian
Holderness Formation
Hope Shale Ordovician
Carboniferous
Hotwells Formation Carboniferous
Inferior Oolite Formation Jurassic
Inferior Oolite Group / Chipping Norton Limestone Jurassic
Inferior Oolite Group / Jurassic
Inferior Oolite Group / Northampton Sands Jurassic
Inferior Oolite Group / Upper Inferior Oolite Formation Jurassic
Infracombe Slates Group / Combe Martin Slates Formation Devonian
Triassic
Iron Sands Jurassic
Jurassic
Ordovician
Kimmeridge Clay Jurassic
Jurassic
Silurian
Ledbury Formation Silurian
Silurian
Leintwardine Beds Silurian
Lias Formation Jurassic, Triassic
Lias Group / Beacon Limestone Formation Jurassic
Lias Group / Blue Lias Formation Jurassic, Triassic
Lias Group / Charmouth Mudstone Formation Jurassic
Lias Group / Dyrham Formation Jurassic
Lias Group / Marlstone Rock Formation Jurassic
Lias Group / Triassic
Lias Group / Whitby Mudstone Formation Jurassic
Lincolnshire Limestone Jurassic
Llanfallteg Formation Ordovician
London Clay Palaeogene
Carboniferous
Jurassic
Lower Chalk Formation Cretaceous
/ Abbott's Cliff Formation Cretaceous
/ Cambridge Greensand Formation Cretaceous
/ Cretaceous
Cambrian
Devonian
Cretaceous
Lower Greensand Group / Atherfield Clay Cretaceous
Lower Greensand Group / Cretaceous
Lower Greensand Group / Ferruginous Sands Cretaceous
Lower Greensand Group / Folkestone Formation Cretaceous
Lower Greensand Group / Hythe Formation Cretaceous
Lower Greensand Group / Sandgate Formation Cretaceous
Lower Greensand Group / Woburn Sand Formation Cretaceous
Palaeogene
Palaeogene
/ Great Scar Limestone Carboniferous
Permian
Ludlow Formation Silurian
Lulworth Formation Cretaceous
Lynton Slates Formation Devonian
Triassic
Jurassic
Mammaliferous Crag Formation
Marl Slate Formation Permian
Mercia Mudstone Group / Blue Anchor Formation Triassic
Mercia Mudstone Group / Keuper Waterstones Formation Triassic
Mercia Mudstone Group / Tarporley Siltstone Formation Triassic
Merevale Shales Ordovician
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Palaeogene
Jurassic
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Gayle Shale Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
/ Carboniferous
Milldale Limestone Carboniferous
Monsal Dale Limestones Formation Carboniferous
Silurian
Mytton Flag Formation Ordovician
Ordovician
Carboniferous
Norwich Crag Formation Quaternary
Jurassic
Ogof Hen Formation Ordovician
Oldhaven Formation Palaeogene
Oldhaven Beds Palaeogene
Osborne Beds Palaeogene
Osgodby Formation Jurassic
Jurassic
Overton Formation Silurian
Oxford Clay Jurassic
Carboniferous
Passage Beds Jurassic
Penarth Group / Lilstock Formation Triassic
Penarth Group / Westbury Formation Triassic
Penarth Group / Jurassic, Triassic
Pendle Grit Carboniferous
Penarth Group / Cotham Formation Triassic
Penarth Group / Westbury Formation Triassic
Petherwin Group / Devonian
Pilton Formation Devonian
Pilton Shales Carboniferous, Devonian
Pontyfenni Formation Ordovician
Portland Formation Jurassic
Jurassic
Portland Group / Portland Stone Formation Jurassic
Purbeck Formation Cretaceous, Jurassic
Purbeck Group / Durlston Formation Cretaceous
Purbeck Group / Lulworth Formation Cretaceous, Jurassic
Jurassic
Ravenscar Group / Cloughton Formation Jurassic
Ravenscar Group / Eller Beck Formation Jurassic
Ravenscar Group / Jurassic
Ravenscar Group / Saltwick Formation Jurassic
Ravenscar Group / Scalby Formation Jurassic
Ravenscar Group / Scarborough Formation Jurassic
Reading Beds Palaeogene
Red Crag Formation Neogene
Rhwlas Limestone Formation Ordovician
Ringstead Coral Bed Formation Jurassic
Roeburndale Formation Carboniferous
Rutland Formation Jurassic
Sabden Shale Carboniferous
Saltwick Formation Jurassic
Jurassic
Sandringham Sandstone Cretaceous
Sandsfoot Grit Jurassic
Selborne Group / Gault Formation Cretaceous
Selborne Group / Upper Greensand Formation Cretaceous
Selsey Formation Palaeogene
Sharp's Hill Formation Jurassic
Sherwood Sandstone Group / Bromsgrove Sandstone Triassic
Sherwood Sandstone Group / Otter Sandstone Formation Triassic
Shunner Fell Formation Carboniferous
Skegness Clay Cretaceous
Carboniferous
Solent Group / Bouldnor Formation Palaeogene
Speeton Clay Cretaceous
Spilsby Sandstone Cretaceous, Jurassic
Stanford Formation Jurassic
Stockdale Shales Silurian
Suffolk Pebble Beds Palaeogene
Tamar Group / Torquay Formation Devonian
Tankerville Formation Ordovician
Tarnbrook Wyre Marine Beds Carboniferous
Temeside Shale Silurian
Thanet Formation Palaeogene
Blue Lias Formation Jurassic
Torquay Limestone Devonian
Jurassic
Upnor Formation Palaeogene
Carboniferous
Upper Bowland Shales Carboniferous
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Carboniferous
Cambrian
Upper Greensand Formation Cretaceous
Palaeogene
/ Carboniferous
Silurian
Urswick Limestone Carboniferous
Warwickshire Group / Permian
Waterhouses Limestone Carboniferous
Weald Clay Cretaceous
Weald Clay Group / Lower Weald Clay Cretaceous
Weald Clay Group / Upper Weald Clay Cretaceous
Wealden Formation Cretaceous
Wealden Group / Ashdown Formation Cretaceous
Wealden Group / Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation Cretaceous
Wealden Group / Vectis Formation Cretaceous
Wealden Group / Wadhurst Clay Cretaceous
Wealden Group / Cretaceous
Wealden Group / Weald Clay Cretaceous
Wealden Group / Wessex Formation Cretaceous
Weaver Beds Carboniferous
Silurian
Wenlock Shale Silurian
Wessex Formation Cretaceous
Westbury Formation Triassic
Westbury Shales Triassic
Weston Flags Formation Ordovician
Weybourne Crag Formation
Whitby Mudstone Formation Jurassic
Whitcliffe Formation Silurian
Silurian
White Chalk Formation Cretaceous
Jurassic
Wittering Formation Palaeogene
Palaeogene
Palaeogene
Wych Beds Silurian
Yeovil Sands Jurassic
/ Alston Formation Carboniferous
Zechstein Group / Marl Slate Formation Permian

See also[]

References[]

  • Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
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