Stowell Park borehole (H. serpentinum Zone, unknown Subzone, 593-684ft) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 8.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hildoceras serpentinum ammonoid zone, Upper Lias Formation (Lias Group), Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• "Hildoceras serpentinum Zone, Subzone indeterminate" (Melville 1956)

•"593ft - 684ft" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lime mudstone

• "Grey, hard calcareous mudstone" (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 204115: 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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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Coleiidae
Proeryon sp. Beurlen 1928 decapod
Polychaeta
 Sedentaria -
Terebellida indet. Rouse and Fauchald 1977
"terebelloid worm tube"
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Posidonia sp. Bronn 1828 oyster
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium mud scallop
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus dubius" = Parainoceramya dubia
"Inoceramus dubius" = Parainoceramya dubia Sowerby 1826 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
 Cerithioidea - Cryptaulacidae
"Procerithium (Xystrella) sp." = Cryptaulax
"Procerithium (Xystrella) sp." = Cryptaulax snail