Fort River, Hadley (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Massachusetts (42.3° N, 72.6° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B.K. Emerson

• Repository: possibly in MCZ, with other Scudder material

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1898. The Pleistocene beetles of Fort River, Massachusetts. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 29:740-746 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152284: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.11.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
Dytiscidae indet. Leach 1815 predaceous diving beetle
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Cymindis extorpescens n. sp. Scudder 1898 ground beetle
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Donacia elongatula n. sp. Scudder 1898 leaf beetle
Saxinis regularis n. sp. Scudder 1898 leaf beetle
 Coleoptera - Elateridae
Corymbites aethiops Herbst 1806 click beetle