Sample 6, Nightingale Estate pit, Hackney (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.6° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° N, 0.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Highbury Silts and Sands Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• MIS 9. 54-64 cm below top of organic deposit.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; unlithified, carbonaceous sandstone

• The sediments were laid down during the infilling of a depression on the floodplain of a large river. The site of deposition appears to have been a water body throughout the period of sedimentation with most of the infill deposited as a succession of sand-rich pulses from floodwater inflow from a nearby main channel of the river. Intervals of quiet-water sedimentation become more common and more sustained upward and the sedimentological and fossil evidence suggests that the water body was changing progressively in character. The dominance of running-water species in the insect fauna even in the upper part of the sequence suggests that the water body continued to serve as a subsidiary channel on the floodplain rather than becoming an enclosed pond.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. P. Green, N. P. Branch, G. R. Coope, M. H. Field, D. H. Keen, J. M. Wells, J. L. Schwenninger, R. C. Preece, D. C. Schreve, M. G. Canti, and C. P. Gleed-Owen. 2006. Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK. Quaternary Science Reviews 25:89-113 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 168268: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.04.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
Colymbetes sp. Clairville 1806 predaceous diving beetle
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Bembidion gilvipes, "Bembidion articulatum" = Bembidion (Trepanes) articulatum, Bembidion minimum, "Bembidion lampros" = Bembidion (Metallina) lampros, "Bembidion assimile" = Bembidion (Diplocampa) assimile, "Bembidium harpaloides" = Ocys harpaloides, "Dyschirius globosus" = Dyschiriodes globosus, Paranchus albipes
Bembidion gilvipes Sturm 1825 ground beetle
"Bembidion articulatum" = Bembidion (Trepanes) articulatum Panzer 1796 ground beetle
Bembidion minimum Fabricius 1792 ground beetle
"Bembidion lampros" = Bembidion (Metallina) lampros Herbst 1784 ground beetle
"Bembidion assimile" = Bembidion (Diplocampa) assimile Gyllenhal 1810 ground beetle
"Bembidium harpaloides" = Ocys harpaloides Audinet-Serville 1821 ground beetle
"Dyschirius globosus" = Dyschiriodes globosus Herbst 1784 ground beetle
Paranchus albipes Fabricius 1794 ground beetle
 Coleoptera - Gyrinidae
Orectochilus villosus Müller 1776 whirligig beetle
 Coleoptera - Haliplidae
Haliplus sp. Latreille 1802 crawling water beetle
 Coleoptera - Helodidae
Helodidae indet. Shuckard 1839 beetle
 Coleoptera - Corylophidae
Corylophus cassidoides Marsham 1802 minute hooded beetle
 Coleoptera - Latridiidae
Corticarina sp. Reitter 1881 minute brown scavenger beetle
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Plateumaris sericea Linnaeus 1761 reed leaf beetle
Macroplea appendiculata Panzer 1794 leaf beetle
Donacia crassipes Fabricius 1775 leaf beetle
Donacia semicuprea Panzer 1796 leaf beetle
 Coleoptera - Brentidae
Apion sp. Herbst 1797 weevil
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
"Otiorhynchus ovatus" = Otiorhynchus (Pendragon) ovatus Linnaeus 1758 snout beetle
Polydrusus sp. Germar 1817 snout beetle
Phyllobius sp. Schoenher 1824 snout beetle
Bagous sp. Germar 1817 snout beetle
Anthonomus sp. Germar 1817 snout beetle
Curculio venosus Gravenhorst 1807 snout beetle
Rhamphus pulicarius Herbst 1795 snout beetle
"Tanysphyrus lemnae" = Tanysphyrus (Tanysphyrus) lemnae Fabricius 1792 snout beetle
Rhynchaenus quercus Linnaeus 1758 snout beetle
Micrelus ericae Gyllenhal 1813 snout beetle
"Ernoporus fagi" = Ernoporicus fagi Fabricius 1798 bark beetle
 Coleoptera - Cryptophagidae
"Atomaria mesomelaena" = Atomaria mesomela
"Atomaria mesomelaena" = Atomaria mesomela Herbst 1792 silken fungus beetle
 Coleoptera - Phalacridae
Phalacrus caricis Sturm 1807 beetle
 Coleoptera - Elateridae
Hypnoidus riparius Fabricius 1792 click beetle
 Coleoptera - Throscidae
"Throscus sp." = Trixagus
"Throscus sp." = Trixagus Kugelann 1794 beetle
 Coleoptera - Dryopidae
Dryops sp. Olivier 1791 long toed water beetle
 Coleoptera - Limnichidae
Limnichus pygmaeus Sturm 1807 minute marsh loving beetle
 Coleoptera - Byrrhidae
Pelochares versicolor Waltl 1833 pill beetle
 Coleoptera - Ptiliidae
Ptenidium sp. Erichson 1845 feather-winged beetle
 Coleoptera - Leiodidae
Agathidium laevigatum Erichson 1845 round fungus beetle
 Coleoptera - Hydraenidae
Ochthebius minimus Fabricius 1792 minute moss beetle
Hydraena sp. Kugelann 1794 minute moss beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Tachyporus sp. Gravenhorst 1802 rove beetle
Stilicus cf. similis Erichson 1839 rove beetle
Philonthus sp. Curtis 1829 rove beetle
Oxytelus laqueatus Marsham 1802 rove beetle
"Trogophloeus sp." = Carpelimus Leach 1819 rove beetle
"Oxytelus nitidulus" = Anotylus nitidulus Gravenhorst 1802 rove beetle
Platystethus cornutus Gravenhorst 1802 rove beetle
Bledius sp. Leach 1819 rove beetle
Stenus spp. Latreille 1796 rove beetle
Pselaphaulax dresdensis Herbst 1791 rove beetle
Bryaxis sp. Kugelann 1794 rove beetle
Aleocharinae indet. Fleming 1821 rove beetle
Phosphuga atrata Linnaeus 1758 rove beetle
Silpha obscura Linnaeus 1758 rove beetle
Micropeplus staphylinoides Marsham 1802 rove beetle
Pseudopsis sulcata Newman 1834 rove beetle
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Aphodius spp. Hellwig 1798 scarab beetle
Valgus hemipterus Linnaeus 1758 flower chafer
"Serica brunnea" = Serica brunna Linnaeus 1758 scarab beetle
 Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
Laccobius sp. Erichson 1837 water scavenger beetle
Coelostoma orbiculare Fabricius 1775 water scavenger beetle
Cryptopleurum minutum Fabricius 1775 water scavenger beetle
Cercyon analis Paykull 1798 water scavenger beetle
Megasternum boletophagum Marsham 1802 water scavenger beetle
 Coleoptera - Histeridae
Onthophilus striatus Forster 1771 clown beetle
Chaetabraeus globulus Creutzer 1799 clown beetle
Hister sp. Linnaeus 1758 clown beetle
 Coleoptera - Ptinidae
Dryophilus sp. Chevrolat 1832 spider beetle