Thrupp House Farm, profile A, 65-69 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, silty claystone

• Light grey silty clay becoming silty 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 164917: 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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Angiospermae
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Carpolithus sp. Linnaeus 1768
 Ranunculales - Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus sceleratus Linnaeus 1753 buttercup
 Poales - Cyperaceae
 Typhales - Commelinidae
Insecta
 Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
Colymbetes sp. Clairville 1806 predaceous diving beetle
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Patrobus cf. septentrionis Dejean 1828 ground beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Olophrum fuscum Gravenhorst 1806 rove beetle