Where: Warwickshire, United Kingdom (52.4° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 1.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Amino acid D/L ratios from molluscan shells give mean values of 0.24, consistent with an age in Oxygen Isotope Stage 9.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; unlithified, carbonaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. H. Keen, G. R. Coope, R. L. Jones, M. H. Field, H. I. Griffiths, S. G. Lewis, and D. Q. Bowen. 1997. Middle Pleistocene deposits at Frog Hall Pit, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, English Midlands, and their implications for the age of the type Wolstonian. Journal of Quaternary Science 12:183-208 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 169395: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.05.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Plateumaris sericea Linnaeus 1761 reed leaf beetle
Donacia sp. Fabricius 1775 leaf beetle
Donacia cinerea Herbst 1784 leaf beetle | |
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Dascillus cervinus Linnaeus 1758 soft bodied plant beetle | |
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Adelocera murina Linnaeus 1758 click beetle | |
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"Normandia nitens" = Riolus nitens Muller 1817 riffle beetle
Oulimnius tuberculatus Muller 1806 riffle beetle
Oulimnius troglodytes Gyllenhal 1827 riffle beetle | |
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Hydraena sp. Kugelann 1794 minute moss beetle
Ochthebius cf. minimus Fabricius 1792 minute moss beetle | |
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Aphodius sp. Hellwig 1798 scarab beetle | |