Kalaloch Site, Browns Point, Sample 14 (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 169372: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Plateumaris sp. Thomson 1859 reed leaf beetle
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Lepidophorus alternatus Van Dyke 1930 snout beetle
Sthereus quadrituberculatus Motschulsky 1845 snout beetle
Alniphagus aspericollis Le Conte 1876 bark beetle
Pseudohylesinus nebulosus Le Conte 1859 bark beetle
 Coleoptera - Elateridae
Elateridae indet. Leach 1815 click beetle
 Coleoptera - Leiodidae
Agathidium sp. Panzer 1797 round fungus beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Arpedium cribratum Fauvel 1878 rove beetle
Pelecomalium testaceum Mannerheim 1843 rove beetle
Orobanus spp. LeConte 1878 rove beetle
"Scydmaenidae indet." = Scydmaeninae Leach 1815 antlike stone beetle
Aleocharinae indet. Fleming 1821 rove beetle
Oropus sp. Casey 1886 rove beetle
Sonoma sp. Casey 1886 rove beetle
"Oxytelus fuscipennis" = Oxytelus laqueatus Marsham 1802 rove beetle
Stenus spp. Latreille 1796 rove beetle
 Coleoptera - Ptiliidae
Ptiliidae indet. Erichson 1845 feather-winged beetle
 Coleoptera - Helophoridae
Helophorus cf. oregonensis water scavenger beetle
 Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
Dytiscidae indet. Leach 1815 predaceous diving beetle
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
"Trechus oregonensis" = Trechus (Trechus) oregonensis
"Trechus oregonensis" = Trechus (Trechus) oregonensis Hatch 1951 ground beetle