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
Serpula socialis
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Graphoceratidae
Ancolioceras sp.
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
? Pronoella sp. Fischer 1887
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys viminea
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Variamussium pumilum
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
Crinoidea - Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
Isocrinus sp. von Meyer 1836
unclassified
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thecosmiliidae
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821
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]