Kalaloch Site, Browns Point, Sample 12 (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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 169370: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
"Elaphrus clairvillei" = Elaphrus (Neoelaphrus) clairvillei Kirby 1837 ground beetle
Bembidion sp. Latreille 1802 ground beetle
"Agonum ferruginosum" = Agonum (Platynomicrus) ferruginosum Dejean 1828 ground beetle
 Coleoptera - Helophoridae
Helophorus cf. oregonensis water scavenger beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Stenus spp. Latreille 1796 rove beetle
Tachinus cf. instabilis Maklin 1853 rove beetle
Olophrum consimile Gyllenhal 1810 rove beetle
Olophrum boreale Paykull 1792 rove beetle
Pelecomalium testaceum Mannerheim 1843 rove beetle
Arpedium cribratum Fauvel 1878 rove beetle
"Scydmaenidae indet." = Scydmaeninae Leach 1815 antlike stone beetle
Staphylininae indet. Latreille 1802 rove beetle
Oropus sp. Casey 1886 rove beetle
Aleocharinae indet. Fleming 1821 rove beetle
 Coleoptera - Ptiliidae
Ptiliidae indet. Erichson 1845 feather-winged beetle
 Coleoptera - Leiodidae
Agathidium sp. Panzer 1797 round fungus beetle
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
"Aphodius pectoralis" = Planolinoides pectoralis, Aphodius sp.
"Aphodius pectoralis" = Planolinoides pectoralis Le Conte 1857 scarab beetle
Aphodius sp. Hellwig 1798 scarab beetle
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Plateumaris nitida Germar 1811 reed leaf beetle
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Sthereus quadrituberculatus Motschulsky 1845 snout beetle
Phloeotribus lecontei Schedl 1961 bark beetle
 Coleoptera - Latridiidae
Stephostethus sp. LeConte 1878 minute brown scavenger beetle
 Coleoptera - Byrrhidae
Morychus sp. Erichson 1847 pill beetle
 Coleoptera - Elateridae
Elateridae indet. Leach 1815 click beetle