Stowell Park borehole (Lower Trigonia Grit, 214-218ft): Middle Jurassic, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Sabellida
- Serpulidae
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Serpula socialis
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Acanthothirididae
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Acanthothiris sp.
d'Orbigny 1849
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Astarte (Neocrassina) sp.
Fischer 1887
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tancrediidae
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Corbicella complanata
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Placunopsis sp.
Morris and Lycett 1853
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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Lima (Plagiostoma) educta
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Lima (Plagiostoma) rodburgensis
Whidborne 1883
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Camptonectes aratus
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Eopecten abjectus
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Propeamussiidae
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Variamussium sp.
Sacco 1897
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Entoliidae
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Entolium sp.
(Meek 1865)
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Modiolus anatinus
Smith 1817
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unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Grant 1836
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Gloucestershire |
| Coordinates: | 51.8° North, 1.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.0° North, 8.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 3-5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Jurassic | ||
| Age range of interval: | 174.7 - 161.5 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Inferior Oolite | Formation: | Lower Trigonia Grit | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "214ft 3in - 218ft" (Melville 1956) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Lithology description: "The Lower Trigonia Grit yielded no diagnostic fossils but was identified by its ironshot character, by its position beneath palaeontologically determined Gryphite and buckmani grits and by its non-sequential contact at a sharply-defined, bored surface with the Upper Freestone" (Green & Melville 1956) | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | core |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BGS |
Metadata
| Database number: | 204102 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Dunhill | Enterer: | B. Allen |
| Modifier: | B. Allen | ||
| Created: | 2019-08-31 05:43:02 | Last modified: | 2019-09-02 08:43:52 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-08-31 05:43:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 69925. | 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] |