Isle of Mull (Seward collection) (Paleocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.3° N, 6.2° W: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 7.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• "In addition, radiometric dates for the lavas above and below the Leaf Beds reveal an age of around 58 Ma (Evans, 1969; Mussett et al., 1973, 1980)."

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; claystone and silty sandstone

• " sediments and associated flora indicate deposition in a shallow temporary lake surrounded by marshland and which intermittently received sediment and plant debris from surrounding areas"
• "The finer-grained Leaf Beds may represent deposits formed during periods of stagnation when little sediment was washed into the lake and a limited freshwater fauna flourished."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A.C. Seward; reposited in the SM

Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Some British fossil insects. The Canadian Entomologist 53:22-23 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162205: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Carabites scoticus n. sp. Cockerell 1921 ground beetle