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
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 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Isodonta woodwardi" = Sowerbya
"Isodonta woodwardi" = Sowerbya clam | |
Protocardia cf. lingulata Lycett 1863 cockle | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam | |
"Myophorella (Vaugonia) producta" = Vaugonia
"Myophorella (Vaugonia) producta" = Vaugonia clam | |
Limopsis minima Sowerby 1824 clam | |
"Posidonia ornati" = Bositra buchi
"Posidonia ornati" = Bositra buchi Roemer 1836 oyster | |
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 | |
Pseudolimea succincta file clam | |
Chlamys (Radulopecten) hemicostata Morris and Lycett 1853 scallop
Chlamys (Radulopecten) cf. hemicostata Morris and Lycett 1853 scallop
Camptonectes laminatus Sowerby 1818 scallop | |
Stenolaemata | |
Berenicea aff. diluviana Lamoureux 1821 | |
Rhynchonellata | |