Kalaloch Site, Browns Point, Sample 18 (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 169376: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Bembidion sp. Latreille 1802 ground beetle
"Trechus oregonensis" = Trechus (Trechus) oregonensis Hatch 1951 ground beetle
 Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
Dytiscidae indet. Leach 1815 predaceous diving beetle
 Coleoptera - Helophoridae
Helophorus cf. oregonensis water scavenger beetle
 Coleoptera - Leiodidae
Agathidium sp. Panzer 1797 round fungus beetle
 Coleoptera - Ptiliidae
Ptiliidae indet. Erichson 1845 feather-winged beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Oropus sp. Casey 1886 rove beetle
Arpedium cribratum Fauvel 1878 rove beetle
Pelecomalium testaceum Mannerheim 1843 rove beetle
"Scydmaenidae indet." = Scydmaeninae Leach 1815 antlike stone beetle
Micropeplus punctatus LeConte 1863 rove beetle
Aleocharinae indet. Fleming 1821 rove beetle
Stenus spp. Latreille 1796 rove beetle
"Tachinus cf. tachyporoides" = Nitidotachinus tachyporoides Horn 1877 rove beetle
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Trypophloeus salicis Hopkins 1915 bark beetle
Pityophthorus cf. digestus Le Conte 1874 bark beetle
Phloeotribus lecontei Schedl 1961 bark beetle
Dendroctonus rufipennis Kirby 1837 spruce beetle
Pseudohylesinus nebulosus Le Conte 1859 bark beetle
Steremnius tuberosus Gyllenhal 1836 snout beetle
Sthereus quadrituberculatus Motschulsky 1845 snout beetle
Trichalophus didymus Le Conte 1854 snout beetle
Lepidophorus alternatus Van Dyke 1930 snout beetle
Rhyncolus brunneus Mannerheim 1843 snout beetle