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
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 | |
Ranunculus sceleratus Linnaeus 1753 buttercup | |
Carex nigra sedge | |
Potentilla erecta cinquefoil | |
Insecta | |
"Notaris bimaculatus" = Tournotaris bimaculatus Fabricius 1787 snout beetle
Limnobaris pilistriata Stephens 1831 snout beetle
Otiorhynchus nodosus Müller 1764 snout beetle | |
"Arpedium brachypterum" = Eucnecosum brachypterum
"Arpedium brachypterum" = Eucnecosum brachypterum Gravenhorst 1802 rove beetle | |
Arachnida | |
Agroeca sp. Westring 1861 spider |