Thrupp House Farm, profile A, 69-77 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 mudstone and unlithified, brown sandstone

• Brown sand grading upwards into grey silty mud with occasional mollusc shells and small chalk pebbles (sand band present at 76.5-77 cm)

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 164918: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Ranunculales - Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus sceleratus Linnaeus 1753 buttercup
 Poales - Cyperaceae
 Rosales - Rosaceae
Insecta
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
"Notaris bimaculatus" = Tournotaris bimaculatus Fabricius 1787 snout beetle
Limnobaris pilistriata Stephens 1831 snout beetle
Otiorhynchus nodosus Müller 1764 snout beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
"Arpedium brachypterum" = Eucnecosum brachypterum
"Arpedium brachypterum" = Eucnecosum brachypterum Gravenhorst 1802 rove beetle
Arachnida
 Araneae - Liocranidae
Agroeca sp. Westring 1861 spider