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: Phricodoceras taylori ammonoid zone, Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)
• "Uptonia jamesi Zone, Phricodoceras taylori Subzone" (Melville 1956)
•"1253ft - 1299ft" (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 204129: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta | |
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Lingulata | |
Discinisca holdeni Tate 1867 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Spiriferina sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
? Rudirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917 | |
Cincta cf. opulenta Buckman 1907 | |
Lobothyris sp. Buckman 1917 | |
Bivalvia | |
Palaeoneilo galatea d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
Nuculana (Ryderia) doris d'Orbigny 1849 pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula (Palaeonucula) navis" = Palaeonucula navis
"Nucula (Palaeonucula) navis" = Palaeonucula navis Piette 1868 nut clam | |
Gryphaea suilla oyster | |
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777 pearl oyster | |
Oxytoma papyria scallop | |
Plicatula patelloides scallop | |
Placunopsis numismalis scallop | |
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Chlamys cf. rollei Stoliczka 1861 scallop
Pseudopecten priscus scallop | |
"Dimyodon sp." = Atreta
"Dimyodon sp." = Atreta Etallon 1862 scallop | |
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Grammatodon insons Melville 1956 clam | |
Astarte gueuxii clam | |
Lucina limbata clam | |
Gastropoda | |
? Zygopleura sp. snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Apoderoceras leckenbyi ammonite
Apoderoceras sp. Buckman 1921 ammonite | |
Parinodiceras sp., "Gemmellaroceras peregrinum" = Gemmellaroceras, "Tubellites tubellus" = Gemmellaroceras, "Tubellites anguiformis" = Gemmellaroceras
Parinodiceras sp. ammonite
"Gemmellaroceras peregrinum" = Gemmellaroceras ammonite
"Tubellites tubellus" = Gemmellaroceras ammonite
"Tubellites anguiformis" = Gemmellaroceras ammonite | |
Nannobelus sp. belemnite | |
"Pseudohastites" cf. charmouthensis Mayer 1866 belemnite |