Thrupp House Farm, profile A, 3-5 cm (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 51.7° N, 1.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Floodplain Terrace, late Devensian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; unlithified, pebbly, gray claystone

• Very dark grey clay mud with some isolated pebbles

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1973

Primary reference: M. M. Aalto, G. R. Coope, and P. L. Gibbard. 1984. Late Devensian river deposits beneath the floodplain terrace of the River Thames at Abingdon, Berkshire, England. Proceedings of the Geologists Association 95:65-79 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 164904: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
"Dyschirius globosus" = Dyschiriodes globosus, "Bembidion guttula" = Bembidion (Philochthus) guttula, Elaphrus cupreus
"Dyschirius globosus" = Dyschiriodes globosus Herbst 1784 ground beetle
"Bembidion guttula" = Bembidion (Philochthus) guttula Fabricius 1792 ground beetle
Elaphrus cupreus Duftschmid 1812 ground beetle
 Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
Cercyon tristis Illiger 1801 water scavenger beetle
 Coleoptera - Hydraenidae
Hydraena cf. riparia Kugelann 1794 minute moss beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Pycnoglypta lurida Gyllenhal 1813 winter rove beetle
Bledius sp. Leach 1819 rove beetle
Aleocharinae indet. Fleming 1821 rove beetle
Tachyporus sp. Gravenhorst 1802 rove beetle
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Limnobaris pilistriata Stephens 1831 snout beetle
Gymnetron sp. Schoenherr 1825 snout beetle
 Coleoptera - Dryopidae
Dryops sp. Olivier 1791 long toed water beetle
Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales - Haloragidaceae
Hippuris vulgaris Linnaeus 1753 mare's tail
Angiospermae
 Alismales - Alismaceae
 Caryophyllales - Polygonaceae
Rumex acetosella Linnaeus 1753 dock
 Asterales - Menyanthaceae
Menyanthes trifoliata Linnaeus 1753 bogbean
 Poales - Cyperaceae
Carex spp. Linnaeus 1753 sedge
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Nuphar lutea water lily
 Charales - Characea
Chara spp. Linnaeus 1753 stonewort