Stowell Park borehole (U. jamesi Zone, U. bronni Subzone, 1224-1235ft) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo galatea d'Orbigny 1850 clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa Sowerby 1823 clam
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Passaloteuthididae
 Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae
Uptonia sp. Buckman 1898 ammonite
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae