Stowell Park borehole (Marlstone Rock-bed, 723-729ft) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 6.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marlstone Rock Formation (Lias Group), Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• "723ft 5in - 729ft 3in" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

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 204119: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Rudirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Tetrarhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pseudopecten dentatus" = Pecten (Pecten) dentatus, "Pseudopecten aequivalvis" = Pseudopecten (Pseudopecten) equivalvis
"Pseudopecten dentatus" = Pecten (Pecten) dentatus Sowerby 1829 scallop
"Pseudopecten aequivalvis" = Pseudopecten (Pseudopecten) equivalvis Sowerby 1816 scallop
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Cephalopoda
 Belemnoidea -
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite