Stowell Park borehole (P. davoei Zone, A. lataecosta Subzone, 888-917ft) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 6.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Androgynoceras lataecosta ammonoid zone, Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• "Prodactylioceras davoei Zone, Androgynoceras lataecosta Subzone" (Melville 1956)

•"844ft - c. 917ft" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, sandy shale

• "Mainly grey sandy shale with occasional clay-ironstone nodules" (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 204122: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Liparoceratidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon insons Melville 1956 clam
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Cucullaea stricklandi" = Arca stricklandi
"Cucullaea stricklandi" = Arca stricklandi Tate 1870 ark
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa Sowerby 1823 clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Pseudolimea acuticostata" = Limea acuticostata
"Pseudolimea acuticostata" = Limea acuticostata Münster 1836 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes mundus Melville 1956 scallop
Pseudopecten sp. Bayle 1878 scallop
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus scalprum Sowerby 1821 mussel
Modiolus cf. ornatus Gabb 1864 mussel
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia truncata Sowerby 1827 cockle
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
"Nuculana (Ryderia) sp." = Ryderia
"Nuculana (Ryderia) sp." = Ryderia Wilton 1930 clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo galatea d'Orbigny 1850 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
? Rudirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917