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, gray claystone
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 164909: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Salix cf. reticulata willow | |
Potentilla palustris cinquefoil | |
Thalictrum flavum meadow-rue | |
Carex nigra sedge | |
Insecta | |
"Bembidion doris" = Bembidion (Trepanedoris) doris
"Bembidion doris" = Bembidion (Trepanedoris) doris Panzer 1797 ground beetle | |
Limnobaris pilistriata, "Notaris bimaculatus" = Tournotaris bimaculatus
Limnobaris pilistriata Stephens 1831 snout beetle
"Notaris bimaculatus" = Tournotaris bimaculatus Fabricius 1787 snout beetle | |
"Staphylinus fuscatus" = Ocypus (Pseudocypus) fuscatus Gravenhorst 1802 rove beetle
Anotylus rugosus Fabricius 1775 rove beetle
Aleocharinae indet. Fleming 1821 rove beetle |