Stowell Park borehole (Oolitic limestone, 92-100ft) (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: Stonesfield Slate Formation (Great Oolite Group), Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 161.5 Ma)

• "91ft 6in - 100ft 1in" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: ooidal limestone

• "sandy and marly oolitic limestones" (Melville 1956)

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 204058: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 30.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea (Liostrea) acuminata Sowerby 1816 oyster
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
"Myophorella (Vaugonia) impressa" = Vaugonia
"Myophorella (Vaugonia) impressa" = Vaugonia clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
? Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam