Sample 2, 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. 13-24 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 168272: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.04.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
Potamonectes depressus Fabricius 1775 predaceous diving beetle
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Microlestes minutulus Goeze 1777 ground beetle
"Dromius linearis" = Paradromius linearis Olivier 1795 ground beetle
Pterostichus minor Gyllenhal 1827 ground beetle
Pterostichus gracilis Dejean 1828 ground beetle
"Bembidion elongatum" = Sinechostictus (Sinechostictus) elongatus Dejean 1831 ground beetle
"Bembidion varium" = Bembidion (Notaphus) varium Olivier 1795 ground beetle
"Bembidion lampros" = Bembidion (Metallina) lampros Herbst 1784 ground beetle
"Bembidion assimile" = Bembidion (Diplocampa) assimile Gyllenhal 1810 ground beetle
"Dyschirius globosus" = Dyschiriodes globosus Herbst 1784 ground beetle
 Coleoptera - Gyrinidae
Orectochilus villosus Müller 1776 whirligig beetle
Gyrinus sp. Geoffroy 1762 whirligig beetle
 Coleoptera - Helodidae
Helodidae indet. Shuckard 1839 beetle
 Coleoptera - Sphindidae
Aspidiphorus orbiculatus Gyllenhal 1808 cryptic slime mold beetle
 Coleoptera - Nitidulidae
"Epuria sp." = Epuraea, Meligethes sp.
"Epuria sp." = Epuraea Erichson 1843 sap beetle
Meligethes sp. Stephens 1829 sap beetle
 Coleoptera - Latridiidae
Corticarina sp. Reitter 1881 minute brown scavenger beetle
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Longitarsus sp. Berthold 1827 leaf beetle
Macroplea appendiculata Panzer 1794 leaf beetle
Donacia crassipes Fabricius 1775 leaf beetle
Donacia semicuprea Panzer 1796 leaf beetle
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Platypus cylindrus Fabricius 1792 ambrosia beetle
Bagous sp. Germar 1817 snout beetle
Curculio venosus Gravenhorst 1807 snout beetle
"Tanysphyrus lemnae" = Tanysphyrus (Tanysphyrus) lemnae Fabricius 1792 snout beetle
Rhynchaenus quercus Linnaeus 1758 snout beetle
Hylesinus crenatus Fabricius 1787 bark beetle
Xylocleptes bispinus Duftschmid 1825 bark beetle
 Coleoptera - Elateridae
Melanotus punctolineatus Pelerin 1829 click beetle
sensu Fabricius 1792, nec Linnaeus 1758
 Coleoptera - Dryopidae
"Helichus substriatus" = Pomatinus substriatus
"Helichus substriatus" = Pomatinus substriatus Muller 1806 long toed water beetle
 Coleoptera - Elmidae
Macronychus quadrituberculatus Muller 1806 riffle beetle
"Normandia nitens" = Riolus nitens Muller 1817 riffle beetle
Riolus cupreus Muller 1806 riffle beetle
Esolus parallelepipedus Muller 1806 riffle beetle
Limnius volckmari Panzer 1793 riffle beetle
Elmis aenea Muller 1806 riffle beetle
"Stenelmis canaliculatus" = Stenelmis canaliculata Gyllenhal 1808 riffle beetle
Oulimnius troglodytes Gyllenhal 1827 riffle beetle
Oulimnius tuberculatus Muller 1806 riffle beetle
 Coleoptera - Limnichidae
Limnichus pygmaeus Sturm 1807 minute marsh loving beetle
 Coleoptera - Byrrhidae
Pelochares versicolor Waltl 1833 pill beetle
 Coleoptera - Dascillidae
Dascillus cervinus Linnaeus 1758 soft bodied plant beetle
 Coleoptera - Hydraenidae
Ochthebius bicolon Germar 1842 minute moss beetle
Ochthebius minimus Fabricius 1792 minute moss beetle
Hydraena sp. Kugelann 1794 minute moss beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
"Trogophloeus sp." = Carpelimus Leach 1819 rove beetle
"Oxytelus rugosus" = Anotylus rugosus Fabricius 1775 rove beetle
Platystethus cornutus Gravenhorst 1802 rove beetle
Platystethus nodifrons Mannerheim 1830 rove beetle
Bledius sp. Leach 1819 rove beetle
Stenus spp. Latreille 1796 rove beetle
Stenus juno Paykull 1789 rove beetle
Bryaxis sp. Kugelann 1794 rove beetle
Aleocharinae indet. Fleming 1821 rove beetle
Micropeplus staphylinoides Marsham 1802 rove beetle
Micropeplus porcatus Paykull 1789 rove beetle
Micropeplus caelatus Erichson 1839 rove beetle
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Scarabaeidae indet. Latreille 1802 scarab beetle
Heptaulacus cf. testudinarius Fabricius 1775 scarab beetle
Aphodius spp. Hellwig 1798 scarab beetle
Onthophagus fracticornis Preyssler 1790 scarab beetle
Valgus hemipterus Linnaeus 1758 flower chafer
 Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
Enochrus sp. Thomson 1859 water scavenger beetle
Cercyon sp. Leach 1817 water scavenger beetle
Cercyon sternalis Sharp 1918 water scavenger beetle
 Coleoptera - Histeridae
Onthophilus striatus Forster 1771 clown beetle
 Coleoptera - Ptinidae
Anobium punctatum De Geer 1774 furniture beetle