Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 8.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hildoceras bifrons ammonoid zone, Upper Lias Formation (Lias Group), Middle Toarcian (182.0 - 175.6 Ma)
• "Hildoceras bifrons Zone, Subzone indeterminate" (Melville 1956)
•"582ft 2in - 593ft" (Melville 1956)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
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 204114: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Peronoceras sp. ammonite | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Lucina bellona clam | |
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium mud scallop |