This is a list of types of limestone arranged according to location. It includes both formal stratigraphic unit names and less formal designations.

Africa

Egypt

• Tura limestone, used for the Great Pyramid casing stones
• Mokattam limestone; Great Pyramid core stones and head of the Great Sphinx are of the "Member III" stratum
• Galala marble (a type of limestone, not a true marble)

Asia

India

• Kota stone
• Nimbahera stone – Type of stone

Camical grade Sement grade Steel grade

Israel (West Bank)

• Meleke – limestonePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallbackPages displaying short descriptions with no spaces
• Jerusalem stone – building stone common in and around JerusalemPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback

Europe

Austria

• Wetterstein limestone – Regional geologic formation in the Northern Limestone Alps and Western CarpathiansPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets

Belgium

• Belgian marble, (not a "true marble"; Devonian limestone)
• Noir Belge
• Rouge Belge

Croatia

• Istrian stone

France

• Caen Stone – Limestone quarried near Caen, France
• Lutetian limestone – Type of limestone from Paris, or "Paris stone" (city buildings are widely faced with it)
  • Saint-Maximin – commune in Oise, FrancePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback, or Oise, limestone (variety of Lutetian)
• Pierre de Jaumont
• Tuffeau stone – limestone rock mined in FrancePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback, in the Loire Valley

Germany

• Solnhofen limestone – Geological formation preserving rare fossils in Germany
• Wetterstein limestone – Regional geologic formation in the Northern Limestone Alps and Western CarpathiansPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets

Gibraltar

• Gibraltar Limestone

Ireland

• Kilkenny marble, not a "true marble"; fossiliferous Carboniferous limestone.

Italy

• Red Verona marble – Variety of limestone from Italy, not a "true marble"; fossiliferous limestone

United Kingdom

England:

• Ashford Black Marble – dark limestone quarried in Derbyshire, England.Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback (not a "true marble"; Carboniferous limestone)
• Bath stone – Oolitic limestone from Somerset used as a building material
• Beer Stone – Man-made caves in Devon, EnglandPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Clipsham stone – Village in Rutland, EnglandPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets, the famous London Stone is made of this.
• Collyweston stone slate – Traditional limestone roofing material of central England (not a "true slate"; thin-bedded limestone)
• Cotham Marble – Limestone variety from Great Britain (not a "true marble"; stromatolitic limestone)
• Cotswold stone – Protected area mostly in South West EnglandPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Dent Marble (not a "true marble"; Crinoidal limestone)
• Frosterley Marble – northern England (not a "true marble")
• Hamstone – Building stone from Somerset
• Headington stone – A limestone from Oxford
• Hopton Wood stone – Type of limestone
• Kentish ragstone, also known as Kentish rag – Hard grey limestone in Kent, England
• Ketton stone
• Pembroke Limestone Group – stratigraphic unitPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Portland stone – Limestone quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England
  • Portland Admiralty Roach – Rock type
  • Bowers Basebed
  • Portland Bowers Roach
  • Portland Grove Whitbed
  • Portland Jordans Roach – Stone variety from the Isle of Portland
• Purbeck stone – Limestone from Dorset
  • Purbeck Marble – Fossiliferous limestone found in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England (not a "true marble"; fossiliferous limestone)
• Sussex Marble (not a "true marble"; fossiliferous freshwater limestone)

Scotland:

• Charlestown limestone – Limestone quarrying in Charlestown, Fife, Scotland

Wales:

• Cymerig Limestone – Kapil rakakPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback

North America

United States

• Anamosa Limestone – dolomitic limestone quarried out of Stone City, IowaPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Bear Gulch Limestone – fossiliferous limestone layer in Montana, USAPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Columbus Limestone
• Cottonwood Limestone – Historic stone resource in the Midwestern United States
• Greenbrier Limestone – Lithostratigraphic unitPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Harrodsburg Limestone – geological formationPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Heceta Limestone – Geologic Formation in Alaska
• Hokie stone
• Indiana Limestone – Limestone quarried in Indiana, United States (Bedford limestone)
• Jeffersonville Limestone – Bedrock unit in Indiana and Kentucky, United States
• Kaibab Limestone – Geologic formation in the southwestern United States
• Kasota limestone – Type of rock in southern Minnesota
• Keyser Limestone – limestone bedrock unit in the Eastern United States named for Keyser, West VirginiaPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Keystone
• Madison Limestone – Geologic formation in the western United StatesPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Michigan limestone
• Onondaga Limestone – Hard limestones rock formation in North America
• St. Genevieve marble – Marble found in Missouri (not a "true marble"; oolitic limestone)
• St. Louis Limestone – Mississippian period geologic formation in the Midwest United States
• Tennessee marble – base materialPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback (not a "true marble"; crystalline limestone)
• Tonoloway Limestone – limestone bedrock unit in the Appalachian MountainsPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback

Canada

• Eramosa marble – Stratigraphic unit of the Lockport FormationPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets (not a "true marble"; bituminous dolomite)
• Ostracod Beds – stratigraphical unit in the Western Canadian Sedimentary BasinPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback (also known as the "Ostracod Limestone")
• Tyndall stone

Oceania

Australia

• Tamala Limestone – Unconsolidated to strongly lithified calcarenite with calcrete/kankar soils; aeolian. Locally quartzose, feldspathic, or heavy-mineral-bearing. Located in Western AustraliaPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback

New Zealand

• Oamaru stone — Hard, compact bryozoan limestone. Granular and creamy white, it usually contains traces of alumina, iron oxide, and silica.

Generic limestone categories

This section is a list of generic types of limestone

• Bituminous limestone
• Carboniferous Limestone – Limestone deposited during the Dinantian Epoch of the Carboniferous Period
• Coquina – Sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of fragments of shells
• Coral rag – Limestone composed of ancient coral reef material
• Chalk – Soft, white, porous sedimentary rock made of calcium carbonate
• Fossiliferous limestone – Limestone containing fossils
• Lithographic limestone – Type of limestone with hard fine grain
• Oolite – Sedimentary rock formed from ooids
• Rag-stone – Work done with stones that are quarried in thin pieces
• Shelly limestone – highly fossiliferous limestonePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Travertine – Form of limestone deposited by mineral springs
• Tufa – Porous limestone rock formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of ambient temperature water