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
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 | |
Purpurina ? ornatissima periwinkle | |
Bivalvia | |
Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860 clam | |
"Inoceramus dubius" = Parainoceramya dubia
"Inoceramus dubius" = Parainoceramya dubia Sowerby 1826 clam | |
Meleagrinella substriata Munster 1831 scallop | |
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium
"Variamussium pumilum" = Parvamussium mud scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Hildaites sp. ammonite | |