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 169401: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.05.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Platystethus arenarius Geoffroy 1785 rove beetle
Stenus brunnipes Stephens 1833 rove beetle | |
Scolytus intricatus Ratzeburg 1837 bark beetle | |
Oulimnius tuberculatus Muller 1806 riffle beetle | |
Adelocera murina Linnaeus 1758 click beetle |