Stowell Park borehole (Passage Beds D, 158-161ft) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Passage Beds Member (Stonesfield Slate Formation), Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 161.5 Ma)

• "158ft - 160ft 10in" (Melville 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• "brown soft marly limestone with irregular dark grey marly patches and many large ironshot ooliths" (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 204066: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 30.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte (Neocrassina) sp.
Astarte (Neocrassina) sp. Fischer 1887 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Cucullaea nuarsensis" = Parallelodon (Nemodon) nuarsense, Grammatodon sp.
"Cucullaea nuarsensis" = Parallelodon (Nemodon) nuarsense Cossmann 1913 clam
Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860 clam