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: Uptonia bronni ammonoid zone, Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)
• "Uptonia jamesi Zone, Uptonia bronni Subzone" (Melville 1956)
•"1224ft - 1235ft" (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 204127: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Palaeoneilo galatea d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Passaloteuthis sp. belemnite | |
Uptonia sp. Buckman 1898 ammonite | |
Rhynchonellata | |