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: limestone
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 204067: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 30.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta | |
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya deltoidea clam | |
Isocyprina sharpi clam | |
Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle | |
"Chlamys (Radulopecten) vagans" = Radulopecten vagans
"Chlamys (Radulopecten) vagans" = Radulopecten vagans Sowerby 1826 scallop | |
Gervillella acuta Sowerby 1826 oyster | |
Ostrea (Liostrea) acuminata Sowerby 1816 oyster |