Sample B, Titusville Site (1967 excavation): Late Pleistocene, Pennsylvania
collected 1967

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Coleoptera - Bostrichidae
Insecta - Coleoptera - Helophoridae
Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Olophrum rotundicolle (Sahlberg 1817)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
Bembidion mutatum (Gemminger and Harold 1868)
Carabus maeander Fischer von Waldheim 1822
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Pennsylvania
Coordinates: 41.6° North, 79.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Titusville Till
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified 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:137210
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-12-12 11:00:08 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-12-12 11:00:08
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]