Sample C, 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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Trechus crassiscapus
Lindroth 1955
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| recombined as Trechus (Trechus) crassiscapus | ||||||||||
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Bembidion cf. versicolor
(LeConte 1847)
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| recombined as Bembidion (Furcacampa) versicolor | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Helophoridae
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Helophorus sempervarians
Angus 1970
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Staphylinidae
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Pycnoglypta sp.
Thomson 1858
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| Pycnoglypta aptera or Pycnoglypta lucida | ||||||||||
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Pycnoglypta aptera
Campbell 1983
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Olophrum rotundicolle
(Sahlberg 1817)
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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: | unlithified peat | ||
| Environment: | mire/swamp | Tectonic setting: | non-subsiding area |
| Geology comments: The maximum zone of overlap lies in the transition between the northern hardwood forest and the southern boreal forest, an area whose climate is analogous to that of southern Ontario. Mean July temperatures in this region range from 18 to 20C. | |||
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: | 137211 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | J. Karr |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2012-12-12 11:03:56 | Last modified: | 2015-12-15 18:36:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-12-12 11:03:56 |
| 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] |