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
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 | |
Isastrea limitata M'Coy 1848 stony coral | |
Chomatoseris porpites, "Microsolena excelsa" = Dendraraea excelsa
Chomatoseris porpites Smith 1816 stony coral
"Microsolena excelsa" = Dendraraea excelsa Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
"Ampullospira naticiformis" = Ampullina (Ampullospira)
"Ampullospira naticiformis" = Ampullina (Ampullospira) snail | |
Dicroloma armatum snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis Greppin 1867 file clam | |
Camptonectes rigidus Sowerby 1818 scallop | |
Ostrea (Liostrea) hebridica Forbes 1851 oyster | |
Sphaeriola oolithica clam | |
Protocardia stricklandi Morris and Lycett 1853 cockle | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949 | |
Terebratulida indet. Waagen 1883 | |
Malacostraca | |
? Goniochirus sp. Etallon 1861 hermit crab |