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: Acanthopleuroceras valdani ammonoid zone, Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)
• "Tragophylloceras ibex Zone, Acanthopleuroceras valdani Subzone" (Melville 1956)
•"1188ft - 1215ft" (Melville 1956)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray 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 204125: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Placunopsis numismalis scallop | |
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Luciniola pumila Goldfuss 1840 clam | |
"Nucula (Palaeonucula) navis" = Palaeonucula navis
"Nucula (Palaeonucula) navis" = Palaeonucula navis Piette 1868 nut clam | |
Palaeoneilo galatea d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Beaniceras sp." = Aegoceras (Beaniceras)
"Beaniceras sp." = Aegoceras (Beaniceras) Buckman 1913 ammonite | |
Acanthopleuroceras valdani d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite
Acanthopleuroceras maugenesti d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite | |
Tragophylloceras ibex Quenstedt 1843 ammonite | |
? Hastites sp. Meyer-Eymar 1883 belemnite | |
Gastropoda | |
Solariella ? admiranda snail | |
Coelodiscus wrightianus snail | |
"Procerithium slatteri" = Cryptaulax slatteri
"Procerithium slatteri" = Cryptaulax slatteri Tate 1870 snail | |
"Acteonina (Ovactaeonina) aulacophora" = Colostracon (Ovactaeonina)
"Acteonina (Ovactaeonina) aulacophora" = Colostracon (Ovactaeonina) snail | |
Katosira sp. Koken 1892 snail |