Stowell Park borehole (White Limestone, 0-68ft) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: White Limestone Formation (Great Oolite Group), Middle Jurassic (174.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• "0 - 68ft 8in" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: ooidal lime mudstone

• "The lithology of the core-samples is of two types, (1) compact marly limestone or calcite-mudstone, with a variable percentage of ooliths and shell-fragments, and (2) oolite, typically fine- and even-grained. The mudstones may be indurated and riddled with tubes full of loose sediment and with crystal-lined cavities, when they become 'Dagham Stone'. Scattered sand-grains occur in most of the rocks. Two four-inch beds of sandy marl were noted and it is probable that others, though present, were not successfully cored." (Green & Melville 1956)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BGS

Collection methods: core

Primary reference: R. V. Melville. 1956. The Stratigraphical Palaeontology, ammonites excluded, of the Stowell Park borehole. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Great Britain 11:67-139 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159427: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.08.2014, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea limitata M'Coy 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Chomatoseris porpites, "Microsolena excelsa" = Dendraraea excelsa
Chomatoseris porpites Smith 1816 stony coral
"Microsolena excelsa" = Dendraraea excelsa Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
"Ampullospira naticiformis" = Ampullina (Ampullospira)
"Ampullospira naticiformis" = Ampullina (Ampullospira) snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis Greppin 1867 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes rigidus Sowerby 1818 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea (Liostrea) hebridica Forbes 1851 oyster
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia stricklandi Morris and Lycett 1853 cockle
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida -
 Terebratulida -
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Paguridae
? Goniochirus sp. Etallon 1861 hermit crab