Stowell Park borehole (scissum Beds, 370-389ft) (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: scissum Beds Formation (Inferior Oolite Group), Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 161.5 Ma)

• "370ft 1in - 389ft 2in" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: calcareous sandstone

• "The scissum beds are fine-grained calcareous sandstones and sands with calcareous doggers, grey when fresh, golden-yellow when oxidised. The 'pipes' and 'pinnacles' of golden colour noted in the log are due to the differential oxidation of pyrite, not to collapse or any other disturbance of the original bedding. The sands are homogeneous and the bedding-planes are difficult to make out, in contrast to the well-stratified but otherwise similar sands in the Middle Lias" (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 204108: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida -
Rhynchonellida indet.
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Quadratirhynchia subdecorata
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea sp.
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Eopecten sp.
Eopecten sp. Douvillé 1897 scallop
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis sp.
Placunopsis sp. Morris and Lycett 1853 scallop
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium mud scallop
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp.
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Isocyprina sp.
Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Myophorella (Scaphotrigonia) cf. formosa
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Graphoceratidae
Leioceras sp.
Leioceras sp. ammonite
Crustacea
 Crustacea -
Crustacea indet.
Crustacea indet. crustacean
unclassified
  -
Plantae indet.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"wood"