Stowell Park borehole (Lower Trigonia Grit, 214-218ft) (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: Lower Trigonia Grit Formation (Inferior Oolite Group), Middle Jurassic (174.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• "214ft 3in - 218ft" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• "The Lower Trigonia Grit yielded no diagnostic fossils but was identified by its ironshot character, by its position beneath palaeontologically determined Gryphite and buckmani grits and by its non-sequential contact at a sharply-defined, bored surface with the Upper Freestone" (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 204102: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis sp. Morris and Lycett 1853 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 - Entoliidae
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
"Variamussium sp." = Parvamussium
"Variamussium sp." = Parvamussium Sacco 1897 mud scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus anatinus Smith 1817 mussel
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte (Neocrassina) sp. Fischer 1887 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Acanthothiris sp. d'Orbigny 1849
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae