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 | |
Rudirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917 | |
Tetrarhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
Gibbirhynchia micra Ager 1954 | |
Bivalvia | |
"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 | |
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop | |
Entolium liasianum scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite |