Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 4.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coroniceras rotiforme ammonoid zone, Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Early/Lower Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)
• "Arietites bucklandi Zone, Coroniceras rotiforme Subzone" (Melville 1956)
•"1814ft 6in - c. 1844ft" (Melville 1956)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lime 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 204156: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 02.09.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
"Placunopsis cf. schafhaeutli" = Anomia schafhaeutli
"Placunopsis cf. schafhaeutli" = Anomia schafhaeutli Winkler 1859 jingle | |
"Anningia cf. faberi" = Anningella
"Anningia cf. faberi" = Anningella scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Coroniceras cf. schloenbachi" = Coroniceras, "Coroniceras rotator" = Coroniceras, "Coroniceras coronaries" = Coroniceras, Coroniceras rotiforme, "? Arnioceratoides sp." = Coroniceras, Arnioceras kridion, "Ammonites cf. multicostatus" = Arnioceras semilaeve, Vermiceras cf. spiratissimum
"Coroniceras cf. schloenbachi" = Coroniceras ammonite
"Coroniceras rotator" = Coroniceras ammonite
"Coroniceras coronaries" = Coroniceras ammonite
Coroniceras rotiforme Sowerby 1824 ammonite
"? Arnioceratoides sp." = Coroniceras Hyatt 1867 ammonite
Arnioceras kridion ammonite
"Ammonites cf. multicostatus" = Arnioceras semilaeve Hauer 1853 ammonite
Vermiceras cf. spiratissimum Quenstedt 1852 ammonite |