Stowell Park borehole (Upper Trigonia Grit, 199-206ft) (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: Upper Trigonia Grit Formation (Inferior Oolite Group), Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 161.5 Ma)

• "198ft 8in - 206ft" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: ooidal limestone

• "generally, a compact, marly and sporadically somewhat oolitic limestone, packed with broken fossils often of large size. The base is bleached for about an inch above the junction with the bleached and oyster-covered top of the Gryphite Grit." (Green & 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 204100: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Kallirhynchia sp.
Kallirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Acanthothiris spinosa
Acanthothiris spinosa Linnaeus 1767
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula socialis
Gastropoda
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Pseudomelania sp.
Pseudomelania sp. Pictet and Campiche 1862 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Isoarcidae
Isoarca capitalis
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp., Mytilus sp.
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys cf. viminea, Camptonectes aratus, Eopecten sp.
Eopecten sp. Douvillé 1897 scallop
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis, Meleagrinella lycetti
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea sp.
Pseudolimea sp. Douglas and Arkell 1932 file clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis fibrosa
Placunopsis fibrosa Laube 1867 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella sp.
Gervillella sp. Waagen 1907 oyster
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
"Lopha marshii" = Actinostreon marshi
"Lopha marshii" = Actinostreon marshi Sowerby 1814 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea (Liostrea) cf. calceola" = Ostrea calceolus, Ostrea (Liostrea) acuminata
"Ostrea (Liostrea) cf. calceola" = Ostrea calceolus Zieten 1923 oyster
Ostrea (Liostrea) acuminata Sowerby 1816 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sublobata
Gryphaea sublobata Deshayes 1830 oyster
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea cf. ornata
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia buckmani
Protocardia buckmani Morris and Lycett 1853 cockle
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia planata
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Anisocardia gibbosa, Isocyprina sp.
Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882 clam
 Megalodontida - Dicerocardiidae
Pseudisocardia cordata
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya subelongata
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina bellona
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte aff. elegans, Astarte cf. spissa
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigoniidae indet.
Trigoniidae indet. Lamarck 1819 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
"Myophorella (Vaugonia) signata" = Vaugonia
"Myophorella (Vaugonia) signata" = Vaugonia clam
Crustacea
 Crustacea -
Crustacea indet.
Crustacea indet. crustacean
unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866