Kalaloch Site, Browns Point, Sample 15 (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 169373: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
Dytiscidae indet. Leach 1815 predaceous diving beetle
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
aff. Trechiama sp. Jeannel 1927 ground beetle
 Coleoptera - Elateridae
Elateridae indet. Leach 1815 click beetle
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Plateumaris sp. Thomson 1859 reed leaf beetle
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Pseudohylesinus nebulosus Le Conte 1859 bark beetle
Pityophthorus nitidulus Mannerheim 1843 bark beetle
Ips concinnus Mannerheim 1852 bark beetle
Alniphagus aspericollis Le Conte 1876 bark beetle
Rhyncolus brunneus Mannerheim 1843 snout beetle
Cossonus sp. Clairville 1798 snout beetle
Trichalophus didymus Le Conte 1854 snout beetle
Lepidophorus alternatus Van Dyke 1930 snout beetle
Sthereus quadrituberculatus Motschulsky 1845 snout beetle
Sthereus multituberculatus Buchanan 1936 snout beetle
 Coleoptera - Latridiidae
Stephostethus sp. LeConte 1878 minute brown scavenger beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Aleocharinae indet. Fleming 1821 rove beetle
Gymnusa sp. Gravenhorst 1806 rove beetle
Stenus spp. Latreille 1796 rove beetle
Sonoma sp. Casey 1886 rove beetle
Abdiunguis sp. Park and Wagner 1962 rove beetle
Oropus sp. Casey 1886 rove beetle
"Pselatrichus sp." = Pselaptrichus Brendel 1889 rove beetle
"Scydmaenidae indet." = Scydmaeninae Leach 1815 antlike stone beetle
"Euasthetinae indet." = Euaesthetinae Thomson 1859 rove beetle
Pelecomalium testaceum Mannerheim 1843 rove beetle
Arpedium cribratum Fauvel 1878 rove beetle
 Coleoptera - Ptiliidae
Ptiliidae indet. Erichson 1845 feather-winged beetle
 Coleoptera - Hydraenidae
Ochthebius discretus LeConte 1878 minute moss beetle
 Coleoptera - Leiodidae
Agathidium sp. Panzer 1797 round fungus beetle