Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 40.2° N, 13.9° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tropidoceras masseanum ammonoid zone, Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Pliensbachian (192.9 - 184.2 Ma)
• "Uptonia jamesi Zone, Tropidoceras masseanum Subzone" (Melville 1956)
•"1215ft - 1224ft" (Melville 1956)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray 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 204126: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
"Tropiorhynchia thalia" = Piarorhynchia thalia
"Tropiorhynchia thalia" = Piarorhynchia thalia d'Orbigny 1850 | |
Lingulata | |
Discinisca holdeni Tate 1867 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nuculana (Ryderia) graphica" = Ryderia
"Nuculana (Ryderia) graphica" = Ryderia clam | |
Nuculana (Dacryomya) minor pointed nut clam | |
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Solariella ? admiranda snail | |
"Procerithium slatteri" = Cryptaulax slatteri
"Procerithium slatteri" = Cryptaulax slatteri Tate 1870 snail | |
Coelodiscus wrightianus snail
Coelodiscus minutus Schubler 1833 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Hastites sp. Meyer-Eymar 1883 belemnite | |
Angeloteuthis michael Lang 1928 belemnite | |
"Metacymbites sp." = Cymbites
"Metacymbites sp." = Cymbites Neumayr 1878 ammonite | |
Acanthopleuroceras arietiforme Oppel 1853 ammonite
Tropidoceras calliplocoides Spath 1923 ammonite
Tropidoceras ellipticum Sowerby 1815 ammonite |