Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 3.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oxynoticeras oxynotum ammonoid zone, Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• "1441ft - 1458ft" (Melville 1956)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: calcareous shale
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 204146: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 02.09.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Cephalopoda | |
"Hypechioceras pierrei n. gen. n. sp." = Plesechioceras pierrei, "Gagaticeras sp." = Gagaticeras, "Parechioceras sp." = Gagaticeras, Echioceras cercum, Echioceras exortum
"Hypechioceras pierrei n. gen. n. sp." = Plesechioceras pierrei Spath 1956 ammonite
"Gagaticeras sp." = Gagaticeras ammonite
"Parechioceras sp." = Gagaticeras ammonite
Echioceras cercum ammonite
Echioceras exortum ammonite | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Palaeoneilo galatea d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
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Chlamys cf. interpunctata scallop | |
Oxytoma papyria, "Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
Oxytoma papyria scallop
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop | |
Pseudolimea pectinoides, "Lima (Plagiostoma) aff. gigantea" = Plagiostoma giganteum
Pseudolimea pectinoides Sowerby 1815 file clam
"Lima (Plagiostoma) aff. gigantea" = Plagiostoma giganteum Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
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? Gervillia sp. Defrance 1820 oyster | |
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Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860 clam | |
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Lucina cf. limbata clam | |