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: Beaniceras centaurus ammonoid zone, Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)
• "Tragophylloceras ibex Zone, Beaniceras centaurus Subzone" (Melville 1956)
•"c. 985ft - 1188ft" (Melville 1956)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone and calcareous 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 204124: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Tragophylloceras huntoni ammonite
Tragophylloceras robinsoni ammonite | |
Tropidoceras stahli Oppel 1856 ammonite
Tropidoceras calliplocoides Spath 1923 ammonite
Tropidoceras actaeon d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite | |
Liparoceras cheltiense Murchison 1834 ammonite
Beaniceras luridum Simpson 1855 ammonite
"Beaniceras senile" = Beaniceras centaurus d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite | |
Hastites sp. Meyer-Eymar 1883 belemnite | |
Passaloteuthis sp. belemnite | |
Gastropoda | |
"Natica" plicata moon snail | |
Pseudobythinella maris n. gen. n. sp.
Pseudobythinella maris n. gen. n. sp. Melville 1956 snail | |
Trochoturbella liassica n. sp.
Trochoturbella liassica n. sp. Melville 1956 snail | |
"Procerithium slatteri" = Cryptaulax slatteri
"Procerithium slatteri" = Cryptaulax slatteri Tate 1870 snail | |
Amberleya cf. gaudryana snail | |
Ataphrus cf. bullatus snail | |
Zygopleura cf. berthaudi snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Plagioglypta sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula (Palaeonucula) navis" = Palaeonucula navis
"Nucula (Palaeonucula) navis" = Palaeonucula navis Piette 1868 nut clam | |
Nuculana (Dacryomya) minor pointed nut clam
Nuculana (Dacryomya) zieteni Brauns 1871 pointed nut clam
Nuculana (Ryderia) doris d'Orbigny 1849 pointed nut clam | |
"Nuculana (Ryderia) graphica" = Ryderia
"Nuculana (Ryderia) graphica" = Ryderia clam | |
Rollieria bronni clam | |
Palaeoneilo galatea d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
Tutcheria sp. Cox 1946 clam
Tutcheria cingulata Goldfuss 1836 clam | |
Astarte gueuxii clam | |
Cardinia abducta clam
Cardinia attenuata clam | |
Hippopodium ponderosum Sowerby 1819 clam | |
Luciniola pumila Goldfuss 1840 clam | |
Mactromya subglobosa clam | |
Pleuromya costata clam | |
Myoconcha decorata Münster 1837 clam | |
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam | |
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam
Goniomya hybrida clam | |
Laevitrigonia troedssoni n. sp.
Laevitrigonia troedssoni n. sp. Melville 1956 clam | |
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Pseudopecten acuticostata scallop
Pseudopecten priscus scallop
Camptonectes mundus Melville 1956 scallop | |
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop | |
"Pseudolimea acuticostata" = Limea acuticostata
"Pseudolimea acuticostata" = Limea acuticostata Münster 1836 file clam | |
Placunopsis numismalis scallop | |
Plicatula calloptycus scallop
Plicatula spinosa Sowerby 1819 scallop | |
Gryphaea cymbium Lamarck 1819 oyster | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Bakevellia laevis oyster | |
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777 pearl oyster | |
"Grammatodon intermedius" = Arca (Cucullaea) intermedia
"Grammatodon intermedius" = Arca (Cucullaea) intermedia Simpson 1855 clam | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
Lingulata | |
Discinisca holdeni Tate 1867 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rimirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917 | |
Echinoidea | |
? Diademopsis sp. sea urchin | |
Crinoidea | |
Isocrinus basaltiformis, "Balanocrinus subteroides" = Balanocrinus subsulcatus
Isocrinus basaltiformis Miller 1821 Sea lily
"Balanocrinus subteroides" = Balanocrinus subsulcatus Munster 1831 Sea lily |