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
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 | |
Porifera indet. Grant 1836 | |
Bivalvia | |
Placunopsis sp. Morris and Lycett 1853 scallop | |
"Lima (Plagiostoma) educta" = Plagiostoma, "Lima (Plagiostoma) rodburgensis" = Plagiostoma rodburgensis
"Lima (Plagiostoma) educta" = Plagiostoma file clam
"Lima (Plagiostoma) rodburgensis" = Plagiostoma rodburgensis Whidborne 1883 file clam | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
"Variamussium sp." = Parvamussium
"Variamussium sp." = Parvamussium Sacco 1897 mud scallop | |
Camptonectes aratus scallop
Eopecten abjectus scallop | |
Modiolus anatinus Smith 1817 mussel | |
Astarte (Neocrassina) sp. Fischer 1887 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Acanthothiris sp. d'Orbigny 1849 | |
Polychaeta | |