Stowell Park borehole (Passage Beds A, 158-161ft) (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: Passage Beds Member (Stonesfield Slate Formation), Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 161.5 Ma)

• Lowermost part of Fuller's Earth (see Collection No. 204062)

•"158ft - 160ft 10in" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

• "light grey marly clay with abundant comminuted shell fragments" (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 204063: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 30.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Chomatoseris porpites
Chomatoseris porpites Smith 1816 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea (Liostrea) acuminata
Ostrea (Liostrea) acuminata Sowerby 1816 oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp.
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
"Posidonia ornati" = Bositra buchi
"Posidonia ornati" = Bositra buchi Roemer 1836 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys (Radulopecten) sp.
Chlamys (Radulopecten) sp. Rollier 1911 scallop
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana (Dacryomya) lacryma" = Leda lacryma
"Nuculana (Dacryomya) lacryma" = Leda lacryma Sowerby 1824 pointed nut clam