Stowell Park borehole (raricostatum Zone, raricostatoides Subzone, 1376-1395ft) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 4.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Echioceras raricostatoides ammonoid zone, Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• "Echioceras raricostatum Zone, Echioceras raricostatoides Subzone" (Melville 1956)

•"1376ft - 1395ft" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: calcareous shale

• "Black and dark grey calcareous shale with occasional limestone nodules and bands" (Green & Melville 1956)

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 204132: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo oviformis, Palaeoneilo galatea
Palaeoneilo oviformis Eck 1865 clam
Palaeoneilo galatea d'Orbigny 1850 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana (Dacryomya) minor, Nuculana (Ryderia) doris
Nuculana (Ryderia) doris d'Orbigny 1849 pointed nut clam
 Carditida - Hippopodiidae
Hippopodium sp.
Hippopodium sp. Sowerby 1819 clam
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Mactromya sp.
Mactromya sp. Agassiz 1843 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
? Arcomya sp.
? Arcomya sp. Agassiz 1838 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon aff. caprinus
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
"Grammatodon intermedius" = Arca (Cucullaea) intermedia
"Grammatodon intermedius" = Arca (Cucullaea) intermedia Simpson 1855 clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp.
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma papyria
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida -
Nannobelus sp.
Nannobelus sp. belemnite
 Ammonitida - Eoderoceratidae
"Hemimicroceras sp." = Bifericeras, Crucilobiceras sp., Eoderoceras sp.
"Hemimicroceras sp." = Bifericeras ammonite
Crucilobiceras sp. Buckman 1920 ammonite
Eoderoceras sp. Spath 1925 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae
"Leptonotoceras sp." = Gemmellaroceras
"Leptonotoceras sp." = Gemmellaroceras Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Piarorhynchia sp.
Piarorhynchia sp. Buckman 1917