Kalaloch Site, Browns Point, Sample 4 (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Jefferson County, Washington (47.6° N, 124.4° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 124.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; unlithified peat

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Quaternary Entomology Laboratory, Department of Geosciences, North Dakota State University

Primary reference: S. G. Cong and A. C. Ashworth. 1996. Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Middle and Late Wisconsinan fossil coleopteran assemblages from western Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA. Journal of Quaternary Science 11:345-356 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169362: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Helophoridae
Helophorus sp. Fabricius 1775 water scavenger beetle
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
"Aphodius pectoralis" = Planolinoides pectoralis
"Aphodius pectoralis" = Planolinoides pectoralis Le Conte 1857 scarab beetle
 Coleoptera - Leiodidae
Agathidium sp. Panzer 1797 round fungus beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Arpedium cribratum Fauvel 1878 rove beetle
"Oxytelus fuscipennis" = Oxytelus laqueatus Marsham 1802 rove beetle
Aleocharinae indet. Fleming 1821 rove beetle
Stenus sp. Latreille 1796 rove beetle
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Lepidophorus alternatus Van Dyke 1930 snout beetle
 Coleoptera - Brentidae
Apion sp. Herbst 1797 weevil
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Chrysomelidae indet. Latreille 1802 leaf beetle
Asiorestia pallida Fall 1910 flea beetle
 Coleoptera - Elateridae
Elateridae indet. Leach 1815 click beetle