Stowell Park borehole (Passage Beds E, 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: limestone

• "yellowish-brown marly limestone with irregular indurated patches in basal four inches" (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 204067: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 30.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Radulopecten) vagans" = Radulopecten vagans
"Chlamys (Radulopecten) vagans" = Radulopecten vagans Sowerby 1826 scallop
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella acuta Sowerby 1826 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea (Liostrea) acuminata Sowerby 1816 oyster