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
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 indet. foram | |
Rhynchonellata | |
? Rudirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Androgynoceras lataecosta ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nuculana (Ryderia) sp." = Ryderia
"Nuculana (Ryderia) sp." = Ryderia Wilton 1930 clam | |
Palaeoneilo galatea d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
"Cucullaea stricklandi" = Arca stricklandi
"Cucullaea stricklandi" = Arca stricklandi Tate 1870 ark | |
Grammatodon insons Melville 1956 clam | |
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Bakevellia laevis oyster | |
Pseudopecten sp. Bayle 1878 scallop
Camptonectes mundus Melville 1956 scallop | |
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop | |
"Pseudolimea acuticostata" = Limea acuticostata
"Pseudolimea acuticostata" = Limea acuticostata Münster 1836 file clam | |
Modiolus cf. ornatus Gabb 1864 mussel
Modiolus scalprum Sowerby 1821 mussel | |
Goniomya hybrida clam | |
Protocardia truncata Sowerby 1827 cockle | |
Pleuromya costata clam |