Stowell Park borehole (Sevenhampton Marl, 87-92ft) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sevenhampton Marl Member (Stonesfield Slate Formation), Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 161.5 Ma)

• "87ft - 91ft 6in" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

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 204057: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 30.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Radulopecten) vagans" = Radulopecten vagans
"Chlamys (Radulopecten) vagans" = Radulopecten vagans Sowerby 1826 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea (Liostrea) hebridica Forbes 1851 oyster
Ostrea (Liostrea) acuminata Sowerby 1816 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiolus imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
"Modiolus imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 mussel
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
"Myophorella (Vaugonia) impressa" = Vaugonia
"Myophorella (Vaugonia) impressa" = Vaugonia clam