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: Agassiceras scipionianum ammonoid zone, Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Early/Lower Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)
• "Arnioceras semicostatum Zone, A. scipionianum Subzone" (Melville 1956)
•"1687ft - 1701ft" (Melville 1956)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lime 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 204153: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 02.09.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
""Rhynchonella" cf. belemnitica" = Prionorhynchia belemnitica
""Rhynchonella" cf. belemnitica" = Prionorhynchia belemnitica Quenstedt 1858 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Metarnioceras subpellati, Metarnioceras pseudokridion, Metarnioceras sheppardi, Arnioceras acuticarinatum, Arnioceras miserabile, Arnioceras ceratitoides, "Eucoroniceras forficatum" = Coroniceras (Eucoroniceras), Agassiceras colesi, Agassiceras scipionianum
Metarnioceras subpellati ammonite
Metarnioceras pseudokridion ammonite
Metarnioceras sheppardi Spath 1925 ammonite
Arnioceras acuticarinatum ammonite
Arnioceras miserabile Quendstedt 1858 ammonite
Arnioceras ceratitoides Quenstedt 1848 ammonite
"Eucoroniceras forficatum" = Coroniceras (Eucoroniceras) ammonite
Agassiceras colesi Buckman 1845 ammonite
Agassiceras scipionianum d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Lima (Plagiostoma) aff. gigantea" = Plagiostoma giganteum
"Lima (Plagiostoma) aff. gigantea" = Plagiostoma giganteum Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop |