PBDB Collection

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

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae	Myophorella (Scaphotrigonia) formosa Myophorella (Scaphotrigonia) formosa Lycett 1860 clam
Cardiida - Arcticidae	Isocyprina cf. dundriensis, Isocyprina cf. leckhamptonensis, ? Pseudotrapezium sp. Isocyprina cf. dundriensis clam Isocyprina cf. leckhamptonensis clam ? Pseudotrapezium sp. Fischer 1887 clam
Carditida - Astartidae	Astarte aff. elegans Astarte aff. elegans clam
Mytilida - Mytilidae	Modiolus anatinus, "Modiolus (Inoperna) plicatus" = Mytilus (Pharomytilus) plicatus, Mytilus jurensis Modiolus anatinus Smith 1817 mussel "Modiolus (Inoperna) plicatus" = Mytilus (Pharomytilus) plicatus Sowerby 1819 mussel Mytilus jurensis Merian 1836 mussel
Pectinida - Pectinoidae	Camptonectes laminatus Camptonectes laminatus Sowerby 1818 scallop
Pectinida - Anomiidae	Placunopsis fibrosa 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, Meleagrinella lycetti "Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop Meleagrinella lycetti 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
Ostreida - Gryphaeidae	Gryphaea sublobata Gryphaea sublobata Deshayes 1830 oyster
Arcida - Cucullaeidae	Cucullaea sp. Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
Rhynchonellata
Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae	Charltonithyris sp. Charltonithyris sp. Buckman 1917
Terebratulida - Lissajousithyrididae	"Lobothyris aff. buckmani" = Monsardithyris buckmani "Lobothyris aff. buckmani" = Monsardithyris buckmani Davidson 1851
Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae	Acanthothiris globosa Acanthothiris globosa Buckman 1917
Bryozoa
Polyzoa -	"Polyzoa indet." = Bryozoa "Polyzoa indet." = Bryozoa Ehrenberg 1831
Sedentaria
Sabellida - Serpulidae	Serpula socialis Serpula socialis
Crustacea
Crustacea -	Crustacea indet. Crustacea indet. crustacean