Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 6.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Androgynoceras maculatum ammonoid zone, Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)
• "Prodactylioceras davoei Zone, Androgynoceras maculatum Subzone" (Melville 1956)
•"c. 917ft - c. 985ft" (Melville 1956)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, sandy 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 204123: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Crinoidea | |
Pentacrinus sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Echinoidea | |
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Bivalvia | |
Nuculana (Dacryomya) minor pointed nut clam
Nuculana (Ryderia) doris d'Orbigny 1849 pointed nut clam | |
Rollieria bronni clam | |
Palaeoneilo galatea d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
Grammatodon insons Melville 1956 clam | |
"Camptonectes lohbergensis" = Pecten lohbergensis, Camptonectes mundus
"Camptonectes lohbergensis" = Pecten lohbergensis Emerson 1870 scallop
Camptonectes mundus Melville 1956 scallop | |
Placunopsis numismalis scallop | |
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Anningia carixensis Cox 1936 scallop | |
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop | |
"Pseudolimea acuticostata" = Limea acuticostata
"Pseudolimea acuticostata" = Limea acuticostata Münster 1836 file clam | |
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Bakevellia laevis oyster
Gervillella sp. Waagen 1907 oyster | |
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Modiolus scalprum Sowerby 1821 mussel | |
Protocardia truncata Sowerby 1827 cockle | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam | |
Hippopodium ponderosum Sowerby 1819 clam | |
Tutcheria ? richardsoni Cox 1946 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium etalense tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
"Zygopleura cf. blainvillei" = Levipleura blainvillei
"Zygopleura cf. blainvillei" = Levipleura blainvillei Munster 1844 snail | |
Amberleya subimbricata d'Orbigny 1850 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Androgynoceras maculatum" = Aegoceras maculatum
"Androgynoceras maculatum" = Aegoceras maculatum Young and Bird 1822 ammonite |