Stowell Park borehole (Gryphite and buckmani Grits, 206-214ft) (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: Gryphite Grits Formation (Inferior Oolite Group), Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 161.5 Ma)

• "206ft - 214ft 3in" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: ooidal, sandy limestone

• "Fine-grained sandy and oolitic limestones extend without lithological change... and although Gryphaea sublobata (Deshayes) is abundant only in the top two feet, it was not possible to separate the Gryphite Grit above from the buckmani Grit below... a bed of black sandy clay with perished chalky shell-fragments is grouped with these beds." (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 204101: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bryozoa
 Polyzoa -
"Polyzoa indet." = Bryozoa
"Polyzoa indet." = Bryozoa Ehrenberg 1831
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Lissajousithyrididae
"Lobothyris aff. buckmani" = Monsardithyris buckmani
"Lobothyris aff. buckmani" = Monsardithyris buckmani Davidson 1851
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
Charltonithyris sp. Buckman 1917
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Acanthothiris globosa Buckman 1917
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus jurensis Merian 1836 mussel
"Modiolus (Inoperna) plicatus" = Mytilus (Pharomytilus) plicatus Sowerby 1819 mussel
Modiolus anatinus Smith 1817 mussel
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sublobata Deshayes 1830 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes laminatus Sowerby 1818 scallop
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis fibrosa Laube 1867 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima (Plagiostoma) educta" = Plagiostoma, "Lima (Plagiostoma) rodburgensis" = Plagiostoma rodburgensis
"Lima (Plagiostoma) educta" = Plagiostoma file clam
"Lima (Plagiostoma) rodburgensis" = Plagiostoma rodburgensis Whidborne 1883 file clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
"Variamussium laeviradiatum" = Parvamussium, "Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium
"Variamussium laeviradiatum" = Parvamussium mud scallop
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium mud scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Crustacea
 Crustacea -
Crustacea indet. crustacean