Thrupp House Farm, profile A, 45-50.5 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, gray claystone

• Dark grey silty clay mud

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 164913: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Asterales - Menyanthaceae
Menyanthes trifoliata Linnaeus 1753 bogbean
 Ranunculales - Ranunculaceae
Insecta
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
"Notaris bimaculatus" = Tournotaris bimaculatus
"Notaris bimaculatus" = Tournotaris bimaculatus Fabricius 1787 snout beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Olophrum fuscum Gravenhorst 1806 rove beetle
 Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
Colymbetes sp. Clairville 1806 predaceous diving beetle