Stowell Park borehole (H. serpentinum Zone, H. falcifer Subzone, 684-706ft) (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: Harpoceras falcifer ammonoid zone, Upper Lias Formation (Lias Group), Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• "Hildoceras serpentinum Zone, Harpoceras falcifer Subzone" (Melville 1956)

•"684ft - 706ft" (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 204116: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Purpurinidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860 clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus dubius" = Parainoceramya dubia
"Inoceramus dubius" = Parainoceramya dubia Sowerby 1826 clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Meleagrinella substriata Munster 1831 scallop
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium mud scallop
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Hildaites sp. ammonite
 Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae