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
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 | |
Malacostraca | |
Proeryon sp. Beurlen 1928 decapod | |
Polychaeta | |
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Bivalvia | |
Posidonia sp. Bronn 1828 oyster | |
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium mud scallop | |
"Inoceramus dubius" = Parainoceramya dubia
"Inoceramus dubius" = Parainoceramya dubia Sowerby 1826 clam | |
Lucina bellona clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Tornatellaea cf. fontis snail | |
"Procerithium (Xystrella) sp." = Cryptaulax
"Procerithium (Xystrella) sp." = Cryptaulax snail |