Stowell Park borehole (S. angulata Zone, S. angulata Subzone, 1874-1931ft) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Schlotheimia angulata ammonoid zone, Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• "Schlotheimia angulata Zone, Schlotheimia angulata 'sensu stricto' Subzone" (Melville 1956)

•"1874ft - c. 1931ft" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lime mudstone

• "Banded grey to black calcareous mudstone, often indurated, and grey argillaceous limestone" (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 204158: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 02.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Osteichthyes -
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 bony fish
Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
Isocrinus sp. von Meyer 1836 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Lingulata
 Discinida - Disciniidae
Discinisca sp. Gray 1840
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea cf. dumortieri Joly 1907 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop
"Chlamys subulata" = Camptonectes subulatus Goldfuss 1834 scallop
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia sp. Agassiz 1841 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam