Stowell Park borehole (Lower Limestone, 362-370ft) (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 Limestone Formation (Inferior Oolite Group), Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 161.5 Ma)

• "362ft 4in - 370ft 1in" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sandy limestone

• "The Lower Limestone is readily distinguished from [the Pea Grit] by its sandy, ironshot character and by the absence of pisoliths. The record of Ancolioceras sp. confirms its identification in the borehole." (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 204107: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
Isocrinus sp.
Isocrinus sp. von Meyer 1836 Sea lily
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula socialis
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Graphoceratidae
Ancolioceras sp.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys viminea
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium mud scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
? Pronoella sp.
? Pronoella sp. Fischer 1887 clam
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia sp.
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836