Thrupp House Farm, profile A, 89-92 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, sandy siltstone

• Light brown sandy silt with few organic fragments

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
 Coleoptera - Byrrhidae
"Simplocaria semistriata" = Simplocaria (Simplocaria) semistriata
"Simplocaria semistriata" = Simplocaria (Simplocaria) semistriata Fabricius 1794 pill beetle
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
"Otiorhynchus ovatus" = Otiorhynchus (Pendragon) ovatus Linnaeus 1758 snout beetle
Sitona sp. Germar 1817 snout beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Aleocharinae indet. Fleming 1821 rove beetle
Olophrum fuscum Gravenhorst 1806 rove beetle
"Arpedium brachypterum" = Eucnecosum brachypterum Gravenhorst 1802 rove beetle
 Coleoptera - Hydraenidae
Hydraena cf. riparia Kugelann 1794 minute moss beetle
 Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
Cercyon tristis Illiger 1801 water scavenger beetle