Knk.561, Malaya Konkovaya River (Pleistocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (69.5° N, 158.5° E: paleocoordinates 69.5° N, 158.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oler Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Ranges from 1.4-1.2 to 0.6-0.5 Ma.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by A.A. Arkhangelov, S.F. Kolesnikov

Primary reference: S. V. Kiselev and V. I. Nazarov. 2009. Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia. Paleontological Journal 43(7):732-850 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163089: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
Hydroporus sp. Clairville 1806 predaceous diving beetle
Agabus sp. Leach 1817 predaceous diving beetle
 Coleoptera - Gyrinidae
Gyrinus sp. Geoffroy 1762 whirligig beetle
Gyrinus opacus Sahlberg 1819 whirligig beetle
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Diacheila polita Faldermann 1835 ground beetle
Harpalus amputatus Say 1830 ground beetle
ssp. amputatoides
Dicheirotrichus mannerheimi Sahlberg 1844 ground beetle
Pterostichus spp. Bonelli 1810 ground beetle
P. (Lenapterus) or P. (Petrophilus)
Pterostichus (Cryobius) spp. Chaudoir 1838 ground beetle
Pterostichus abnormis Sahlberg 1880 ground beetle
Poecilus nearcticus Lindroth 1966 ground beetle
Curtonotus alpinus Paykull 1790 ground beetle
Bembidion spp. Latreille 1802 ground beetle
 Coleoptera - Byrrhidae
Morychus viridis Kuzmina and Korotyauv 1987 pill beetle
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Chrysolina rufilabris Faldermann 1835 leaf beetle
Chrysolina subsulcata Mannerheim 1853 leaf beetle
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Stephanocleonus sp. Motschulsky 1860 snout beetle
Stephanocleonus eruditus Faust 1890 snout beetle
Stephanocleonus incertus Ter-Minasian 1972 snout beetle
Coniocleonus sp. Motschulsky 1860 snout beetle
Hypera ornata Capiomont 1868 snout beetle
Vitavitus thulius Kissinger 1973 snout beetle
Notaris aethiops Fabricius 1792 snout beetle
"Grypidius equiseti" = Grypus equiseti Fabricius 1775 snout beetle
"Notaris bimaculatus" = Tournotaris bimaculatus Fabricius 1787 snout beetle
"Lepyrus nordenskioeldi" = Lepyrus nordenskioldi Faust 1887 snout beetle
 Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
Hydrophilidae indet. Latreille 1802 water scavenger beetle