Sample A, Titusville Site (1967 excavation): Late/Upper Pleistocene, Pennsylvania
collected 1967
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Carabidae
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Elaphrus lapponicus
Gyllenhal 1810
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Pterostichus patruelis
(Dejean 1831)
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| recombined as Pterostichus (Phonias) patruelis | ||||||||||
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Carabus maeander
Fischer von Waldheim 1822
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| recombined as Carabus (Homoeocarabus) maeander | ||||||||||
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Dyschirius nigricornis
Motschulsky 1844
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= Dyschirius melancholicus
Putzeys 1867
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Bousquet 2012 | |||||||||
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Trechus crassiscapus
Lindroth 1955
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| recombined as Trechus (Trechus) crassiscapus | ||||||||||
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Bembidion fortestriatum
(Motschulsky 1845)
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| recombined as Bembidion (Trepanedoris) fortestriatum | ||||||||||
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Patrobus septentrionis
Dejean 1828
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Helophoridae
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Helophorus tuberculatus
Gyllenhal 1808
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Staphylinidae
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Holoboreaphilus nordenskioeldi
(Maklin 1878)
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| recombined as Holoboreaphilus nordenskioldi | ||||||||||
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Pycnoglypta sp.
Thomson 1858
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| Pycnoglypta aptera or Pycnoglypta lurida | ||||||||||
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Pycnoglypta aptera
Campbell 1983
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Olophrum rotundicolle
(Sahlberg 1817)
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Olophrum consimile
(Gyllenhal 1810)
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Acidota quadrata
(Zetterstedt 1837)
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates: | 41.6° North, 79.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.6° North, 79.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | hand sample |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Titusville Till |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | peat | ||
| Environment: | mire/swamp | Tectonic setting: | non-subsiding area |
| Geology comments: Like Zone I, analogues to the Zone III fauna occur today in forest–tundra environments of North America where mean July temperatures range from 10 to 13C. | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,sieve |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis | Collection dates: | 1967 |
| Collection method comments: All specimens, including those examined by Totten and Coope in 1967, were mounted onto micropaleontological slides and reposited in the Quaternary Entomology Laboratory at North Dakota State University. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 137209 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | J. Karr, M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2012-12-12 10:56:04 | Last modified: | 2014-08-09 14:15:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-12-12 10:56:04 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 43873. | S. Cong, A. C. Ashworth, D. P. Schwert and S. M. Totten. 1996. Fossil Beetle Evidence for a Short Warm Interval near 40,000 yr B.P. at Titusville, Pennsylvania. Quaternary Research 45:216-225 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/J. Karr] |
Secondary references:
| 50873 | Y. Bousquet. 2012. Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico. ZooKeys 245:1-1722 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |