Brandon Wood (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: Warwickshire, United Kingdom (52.4° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 1.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chibanian (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• The deposit is believed to belong to an interstadial which is probably of early Wolstonian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; unlithified peat

• Organic deposits in a channel depression

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1970

Primary reference: P. Hammond, A. Morgan, and A. V. Morgan. 1979. On the gibbulus group of Anotylus, and fossil occurrence of Anotylus gibbulus (Staphylinidae). Systematic Entomology 4:215-221 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 163073: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Anotylus gibbulus Eppelsheim 1877 rove beetle