Stowell Park borehole (T. ibex Zone, A. valdani Subzone, 1188-1215ft) (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: 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
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa Sowerby 1823 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Luciniola pumila Goldfuss 1840 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Nucula (Palaeonucula) navis" = Palaeonucula navis
"Nucula (Palaeonucula) navis" = Palaeonucula navis Piette 1868 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo galatea d'Orbigny 1850 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Liparoceratidae
"Beaniceras sp." = Aegoceras (Beaniceras)
"Beaniceras sp." = Aegoceras (Beaniceras) Buckman 1913 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae
Acanthopleuroceras valdani d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite
Acanthopleuroceras maugenesti d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Juraphyllitidae
Tragophylloceras ibex Quenstedt 1843 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Hastitidae
? Hastites sp. Meyer-Eymar 1883 belemnite
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Solariellidae
 Caenogastropoda - Coelodiscidae
 Cerithioidea - Cryptaulacidae
"Procerithium slatteri" = Cryptaulax slatteri
"Procerithium slatteri" = Cryptaulax slatteri Tate 1870 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Acteoninidae
"Acteonina (Ovactaeonina) aulacophora" = Colostracon (Ovactaeonina)
"Acteonina (Ovactaeonina) aulacophora" = Colostracon (Ovactaeonina) snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Settsassiidae
Katosira sp. Koken 1892 snail