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: Asteroceras obtusum ammonoid zone, Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• "Asteroceras obtusum Zone, Asteroceras obtusum 'sensu stricto' Subzone" (Melville 1956)

•"1512ft - 1548ft" (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 204148: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 02.09.2019

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