Thrupp House Farm, profile A, 51.5-57 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, argillaceous siltstone

• Poorly laminated light grey clayey silt

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 164914: 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 - Curculionidae
"Otiorhynchus ovatus" = Otiorhynchus (Pendragon) ovatus, "Notaris bimaculatus" = Tournotaris bimaculatus
"Otiorhynchus ovatus" = Otiorhynchus (Pendragon) ovatus Linnaeus 1758 snout beetle
"Notaris bimaculatus" = Tournotaris bimaculatus Fabricius 1787 snout beetle
Actinopteri
  -
? Actinopteri indet. Cope 1871
"Bones (fishes?)"
 Charales - Characea
Chara spp. Linnaeus 1753 stonewort
Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
 Ranunculales - Ranunculaceae