Stowell Park borehole (?Sharp's Hill Beds, 114-118ft) (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)

• "113ft 7in - 118ft 5in" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; brown, green claystone and limestone

• "Beneath the lower sandy and marly oolitic limestones lies a group of blotchy green yellow and brownish clays and thin limestones. The lithology recalls some of the clays of the Upper Estuarine Series of Northamptonshire and the impression of an estuarine environment is strengthened by certain faunal resemblances to the Sharp's Hill Beds, with which these beds are tentatively correlated." (Green & 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 204061: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 30.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea minchinhamptonensis
Cucullaea minchinhamptonensis Cox and Arkell 1948 clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis socialis
Placunopsis socialis Morris and Lycett 1853 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes laminatus
Camptonectes laminatus Sowerby 1818 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea (Liostrea) hebridica, Ostrea (Liostrea) acuminata, "Ostrea (Liostrea) davaiacensis" = Ostrea davaiacensis, "Ostrea (Liostrea) cf. calceola" = Ostrea calceolus
Ostrea (Liostrea) hebridica Forbes 1851 oyster
Ostrea (Liostrea) acuminata Sowerby 1816 oyster
"Ostrea (Liostrea) davaiacensis" = Ostrea davaiacensis Lissajous 1923 oyster
"Ostrea (Liostrea) cf. calceola" = Ostrea calceolus Zieten 1923 oyster
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella ovata, Gervillella monotis
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus (Inoperna) sp.
Modiolus (Inoperna) sp. Conrad 1875 mussel