Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 3.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Promicroceras capricornoides ammonoid zone, Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• "Caenisites turneri Zone, Promicroceras capricornoides Subzone" (Melville 1956)
•"1548ft - 1578ft" (Melville 1956)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: 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 204149: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 02.09.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Promicroceras capricornoides ammonite
Microderoceras aff. scoresbyi ammonite | |
Arnioceras semicostatoides ammonite | |
Cymbites sp. Neumayr 1878 ammonite | |
Asteroceras sp. Hyatt 1867 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana (Dacryomya) sp. Agassiz 1840 pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula (Palaeonucula) navis" = Palaeonucula navis
"Nucula (Palaeonucula) navis" = Palaeonucula navis Piette 1868 nut clam | |
Lucina limbata clam | |
Mactromya sp. Agassiz 1843 clam | |
Goniomya sp. Agassiz 1842 clam | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam | |
"Lima (Plagiostoma) aff. gigantea" = Plagiostoma giganteum
"Lima (Plagiostoma) aff. gigantea" = Plagiostoma giganteum Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
"Anningia faberi" = Anningella
"Anningia faberi" = Anningella scallop | |
Semuridia sp. Melville 1956 oyster | |
Gervillella sp., "Gervillia lanceolata" = Gervillella lanceolata
Gervillella sp. Waagen 1907 oyster
"Gervillia lanceolata" = Gervillella lanceolata Muenster 1826 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
? Pseudobythinella sp. Melville 1956 snail |