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, silty 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 164917: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Angiospermae | |
Carpolithus sp. Linnaeus 1768 | |
Thalictrum flavum meadow-rue
Ranunculus lingua buttercup
Ranunculus sceleratus Linnaeus 1753 buttercup | |
Carex nigra sedge
Schoenoplectus lacustris sedge | |
Sparganium erectum bur-reed | |
Insecta | |
Colymbetes sp. Clairville 1806 predaceous diving beetle | |
Patrobus cf. septentrionis Dejean 1828 ground beetle | |
Olophrum fuscum Gravenhorst 1806 rove beetle |