Where: Pennsylvania (41.6° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 79.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Titusville Till Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; peat
Size class: mesofossils
Collected in 1967
Collection methods: quarrying, sieve
• All specimens, including those examined by Totten and Coope in 1967, were mounted onto micropaleontological slides and reposited in the Quaternary Entomology Laboratory at North Dakota State University.
Primary reference: S. Cong, A. C. Ashworth, D. P. Schwert and S. M. Totten. 1996. Fossil Beetle Evidence for a Short Warm Interval near 40,000 yr B.P. at Titusville, Pennsylvania. Quaternary Research 45:216-225 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/J. Karr]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137209: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 12.12.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
"Holoboreaphilus nordenskioeldi" = Holoboreaphilus nordenskioldi, Pycnoglypta sp., Pycnoglypta aptera, Olophrum consimile, Olophrum rotundicolle, Acidota quadrata
"Holoboreaphilus nordenskioeldi" = Holoboreaphilus nordenskioldi Maklin 1878 rove beetle
Pycnoglypta aptera Campbell 1983 winter rove beetle
Olophrum consimile Gyllenhal 1810 rove beetle
Olophrum rotundicolle Sahlberg 1817 rove beetle
Acidota quadrata Zetterstedt 1837 rove beetle | |
Helophorus tuberculatus Gyllenhal 1808 water scavenger beetle | |
"Bembidion fortestriatum" = Bembidion (Trepanedoris) fortestriatum, "Trechus crassiscapus" = Trechus (Trechus) crassiscapus, Patrobus septentrionis, "Pterostichus patruelis" = Pterostichus (Phonias) patruelis, "Carabus maeander" = Carabus (Homoeocarabus) maeander, Dyschirius melancholicus, Elaphrus lapponicus
"Bembidion fortestriatum" = Bembidion (Trepanedoris) fortestriatum Motschulsky 1845 ground beetle
"Trechus crassiscapus" = Trechus (Trechus) crassiscapus Lindroth 1955 ground beetle
Patrobus septentrionis Dejean 1828 ground beetle
"Pterostichus patruelis" = Pterostichus (Phonias) patruelis Dejean 1831 ground beetle
"Carabus maeander" = Carabus (Homoeocarabus) maeander Fischer von Waldheim 1822 ground beetle
Dyschirius melancholicus Putzeys 1867 ground beetle
Elaphrus lapponicus Gyllenhal 1810 ground beetle |