Stowell Park borehole (H. bifrons Zone, unknown Subzone, 582-593ft) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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

• "Black and dark grey shale with scattered calcareous nodules" (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 204114: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium mud scallop