Where: Pennsylvania (41.6° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 79.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Titusville Till Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; peat
Size class: mesofossils
Collected in 1967
Collection methods: quarrying, sieve
• 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.
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137209: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 12.12.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Elaphrus lapponicus, "Pterostichus patruelis" = Pterostichus (Phonias) patruelis, "Carabus maeander" = Carabus (Homoeocarabus) maeander, Patrobus septentrionis, "Trechus crassiscapus" = Trechus (Trechus) crassiscapus, "Bembidion fortestriatum" = Bembidion (Trepanedoris) fortestriatum, Dyschirius melancholicus
Elaphrus lapponicus Gyllenhal 1810 ground beetle
"Pterostichus patruelis" = Pterostichus (Phonias) patruelis Dejean 1831 ground beetle
"Carabus maeander" = Carabus (Homoeocarabus) maeander Fischer von Waldheim 1822 ground beetle
Patrobus septentrionis Dejean 1828 ground beetle
"Trechus crassiscapus" = Trechus (Trechus) crassiscapus Lindroth 1955 ground beetle
"Bembidion fortestriatum" = Bembidion (Trepanedoris) fortestriatum Motschulsky 1845 ground beetle
Dyschirius melancholicus Putzeys 1867 ground beetle | |
Olophrum rotundicolle, Olophrum consimile, Acidota quadrata, "Holoboreaphilus nordenskioeldi" = Holoboreaphilus nordenskioldi, Pycnoglypta sp., Pycnoglypta aptera
Olophrum rotundicolle Sahlberg 1817 rove beetle
Olophrum consimile Gyllenhal 1810 rove beetle
Acidota quadrata Zetterstedt 1837 rove beetle
"Holoboreaphilus nordenskioeldi" = Holoboreaphilus nordenskioldi Maklin 1878 rove beetle
Pycnoglypta aptera Campbell 1983 winter rove beetle | |
Helophorus tuberculatus Gyllenhal 1808 water scavenger beetle |