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The Chipping Norton Formation 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....

Vertebrate fauna

The so-called "Scrotum humanum" remains may have come from this formation.

Dinosaur Dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of... s reported from the Chipping Norton Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Material	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	Gloucestershire			Actually indeterminate ornithischian remains.
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. giganteus	Oxfordshire			Actually indeterminate sauropod remains.
	Indeterminate	Gloucestershire Oxfordshire			Actually indeterminate sauropod remains.
Lexovisaurus Lexovisaurus Lexovisaurus was one of the first dinosaurs from mid-to-Late Jurassic Europe, 164.7 mya to be discovered. It was a stegosaur. Its fossils have been found in France and northern England....	L. vetustus	Gloucestershire			Actually indeterminate stegosaur remains.
Megalosaurus Megalosaurus Megalosaurus is a genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period of Europe...	Indeterminate	Gloucestershire ~~Oxfordshire~~			Oxfordshire remains later found to be from an indeterminate theropod.
Omosaurus	O. vetustus	Oxfordshire			Actually indeterminate stegosaur remains.
Phyllodon Phyllodon Phyllodon was a genus of small ornithopod dinosaur from the Kimmeridgian-age Upper Jurassic Guimarota Formation of Leiria, Portugal. It may have been closely related to contemporaneous dinosaurs in North America....	Indeterminate	Gloucestershire			Actually indeterminate ornithischian remains.
Stegosaurus Stegosaurus Stegosaurus is a genus of armored stegosaurid dinosaur. They lived during the Late Jurassic period , some 155 to 150 million years ago in what is now western North America. In 2006, a specimen of Stegosaurus was announced from Portugal, showing that they were present in Europe as well...	Indeterminate	Gloucestershire			Actually indeterminate stegosaur remains.
Streptospondylus Streptospondylus Streptospondylus is a genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur known from the Middle Jurassic period of France, 161 million years ago. It was a medium-sized predator.-Discovery and naming:...	S. cuvieri	Oxfordshire		"Vertebrae [and] limb elements."	Actually indeterminate theropod remains.

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