Stowell Park borehole (Lower Limestone, 362-370ft): Middle Jurassic, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Sabellida
- Serpulidae
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Serpula socialis
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Graphoceratidae
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Ancolioceras sp.
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Arcticidae
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? Pronoella sp.
Fischer 1887
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys viminea
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Propeamussiidae
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Variamussium pumilum
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Entoliidae
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Entolium corneolum
(Young and Bird 1828)
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Crinoidea
- Isocrinida
- Isocrinidae
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Isocrinus sp.
von Meyer 1836
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unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Grant 1836
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Thecosmiliidae
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Montlivaltia sp.
Lamouroux 1821
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see common names |
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 Limestone | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "362ft 4in - 370ft 1in" (Melville 1956) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandy "limestone" |
Lithology description: "The Lower Limestone is readily distinguished from [the Pea Grit] by its sandy, ironshot character and by the absence of pisoliths. The record of Ancolioceras sp. confirms its identification in the borehole." (Green & Melville 1956) | |
Environment: | carbonate 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: | 204107 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Dunhill | Enterer: | B. Allen |
Modifier: | B. Allen | ||
Created: | 2019-08-31 06:06:45 | Last modified: | 2019-09-02 08:54:01 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-08-31 06:06:45 |
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] |