Stowell Park borehole (A. bucklandi Zone, C. rotiforme Subzone, 1815-1844ft): Early Sinemurian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Arietitidae
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Coroniceras coronaries
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Spath 1956 | ||||||
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Coroniceras rotator
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Spath 1956 | ||||||
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Coroniceras cf. schloenbachi
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Spath 1956 | ||||||
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Coroniceras rotiforme
(Sowerby 1824)
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Spath 1956 | ||||||
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? Arnioceratoides sp.
Spath 1922
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Spath 1956 | ||||||
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Vermiceras cf. spiratissimum
(Quenstedt 1852)
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Spath 1956 | ||||||
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Arnioceras kridion
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Spath 1956 | ||||||
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Ammonites cf. multicostatus
Hauer 1856
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Spath 1956 | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Placunopsis cf. schafhaeutli
(Winkler 1859)
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Buchiidae
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Anningia cf. faberi
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Gloucestershire |
| Coordinates: | 51.8° North, 1.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.1° North, 11.0° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early Jurassic |
| Stage: | Sinemurian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Early Sinemurian | Ammonoid zone: | Coroniceras rotiforme |
| Age range of interval: | 199.5 - 192.9 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Lias | Formation: | Lower Lias | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Arietites bucklandi Zone, Coroniceras rotiforme Subzone" (Melville 1956)
"1814ft 6in - c. 1844ft" (Melville 1956) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lime mudstone |
| Lithology description: "Dark grey and black calcareous mudstone, often indurated, with subordinate shale bands and occasional limestone nodules and bands" (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: | 204156 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Dunhill | Enterer: | B. Allen |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | ||
| Created: | 2019-09-02 04:58:34 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-09-02 04:58:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
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] |
Secondary references:
| 69966 | L. F. Spath. 1956. The Liassic Ammonite Faunas of the Stowell Park Borehole. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Great Britiain 11:140-179 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] |