Stowell Park borehole (P. planorbis Zone, P. planorbis Subzone, 1990-2026ft) (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: Psiloceras planorbis ammonoid zone, Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• "Psiloceras planorbis Zone, Psiloceras planorbis 'sensu stricto' Subzone" (Melville 1956)

•"c. 1990ft - 2026ft" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

• "Black finely-laminated shaly mudstone" (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 204161: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 02.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima (Plagiostoma) sp." = Plagiostoma, Pseudolimea pectinoides
"Lima (Plagiostoma) sp." = Plagiostoma Sowerby 1814 file clam
Pseudolimea pectinoides Sowerby 1815 file clam
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia hybrida
Cardinia hybrida Sowerby 1817 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp.
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina limbata
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Pteromya sp.
Pteromya sp. Moore 1861 clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo galatea
Palaeoneilo galatea d'Orbigny 1850 clam
Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceratidae indet.
Phylloceratidae indet. Zittel 1884 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Psiloceratidae
Psiloceras sp.