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, sandy siltstone
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 164921: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
"Simplocaria semistriata" = Simplocaria (Simplocaria) semistriata
"Simplocaria semistriata" = Simplocaria (Simplocaria) semistriata Fabricius 1794 pill beetle | |
"Otiorhynchus ovatus" = Otiorhynchus (Pendragon) ovatus, Sitona sp.
"Otiorhynchus ovatus" = Otiorhynchus (Pendragon) ovatus Linnaeus 1758 snout beetle
Sitona sp. Germar 1817 snout beetle | |
Aleocharinae indet. Fleming 1821 rove beetle
Olophrum fuscum Gravenhorst 1806 rove beetle
"Arpedium brachypterum" = Eucnecosum brachypterum Gravenhorst 1802 rove beetle | |
Hydraena cf. riparia Kugelann 1794 minute moss beetle | |
Cercyon tristis Illiger 1801 water scavenger beetle |