Stowell Park borehole (Passage Beds B, 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)

• "158ft - 160ft 10in" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

• "light to dark grey marl with yellowish-stained patches and seams, abundant large ironshot ooliths and some harder patches" (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 204064: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 30.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Sowerbyidae
"Isodonta woodwardi" = Sowerbya
"Isodonta woodwardi" = Sowerbya clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia cf. lingulata Lycett 1863 cockle
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
"Myophorella (Vaugonia) producta" = Vaugonia
"Myophorella (Vaugonia) producta" = Vaugonia clam
 Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis minima Sowerby 1824 clam
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
"Posidonia ornati" = Bositra buchi
"Posidonia ornati" = Bositra buchi Roemer 1836 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea (Liostrea) acuminata, "Ostrea (Liostrea) davaiacensis" = Ostrea davaiacensis, "Ostrea (Liostrea) cf. calceola" = Ostrea calceolus
Ostrea (Liostrea) acuminata Sowerby 1816 oyster
"Ostrea (Liostrea) davaiacensis" = Ostrea davaiacensis Lissajous 1923 oyster
"Ostrea (Liostrea) cf. calceola" = Ostrea calceolus Zieten 1923 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys (Radulopecten) hemicostata Morris and Lycett 1853 scallop
Chlamys (Radulopecten) cf. hemicostata Morris and Lycett 1853 scallop
Camptonectes laminatus Sowerby 1818 scallop
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Diastoporidae
Berenicea aff. diluviana Lamoureux 1821
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Eudesiidae