Where: Worcestershire, United Kingdom (52.3° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 52.3° N, 2.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• The Upton Warren site was radiocarbon dated at 41,500 +/-1200 (GRO 595) and 41,900 +/- 800 (GRO 1245). Both dates are in close agreement and together with a dated humate extract indicate that the organic horizon was deposited approximately 42,000 years B.P.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified peat

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in the 1950s

Primary reference: G. R. Coope, F. W. Shotton, I. Strachan and S. P. Dance. 1961. A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 244:379-421 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 163075: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.10.2014

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