Sample 1, 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. 0-13 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 168273: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.04.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Elmidae
Limnius volckmari
Limnius volckmari Panzer 1793 riffle beetle
 Coleoptera - Elateridae
Melanotus punctolineatus
Melanotus punctolineatus Pelerin 1829 click beetle
sensu Fabricius 1792, nec Linnaeus 1758
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Donacia semicuprea, Plateumaris sericea
Donacia semicuprea Panzer 1796 leaf beetle
Plateumaris sericea Linnaeus 1761 reed leaf beetle
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus sp.
Onthophagus sp. Latreille 1802 scarab beetle