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The fauna of the channel deposit of early saalian age at brandon, warwickshire
P. J. Osborne,F. W. Shotton +1 more
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A fauna consisting of both vertebrates and invertebrates is described from an early Saalian deposit at Brandon, Warwickshire, being probably the first to be described from this time horizon.Abstract:
A fauna consisting of both vertebrates and invertebrates is described from an early Saalian deposit at Brandon, Warwickshire. Some 77 taxa, mostly Coleoptera, including 6 not now occurring in Britain, are recorded and though this is a very limited fauna, possibly due to rapidity of deposition, it is interesting as being probably the first to be described from this time horizon. The animal assemblage suggests deposition in a lake or slowly flowing river bordered by reeds and rushes with a Salix thicket on the surrounding ground. A climate cooler than that of today though not of arctic severity is indicated.read more
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Pleistocene history of the british vertebrate fauna
TL;DR: This review covers the Pleistocene history of British non‐marine Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia and especially Mammalia, which alone have a good fossil record, and the relationship between faunal history and vegetational history, as determined from fossil pollen and macroscopic plant remains.
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Pleistocene Helophorus (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from Borislav and Starunia in the Western Ukraine, with a Reinterpretation of M. Lomnicki's Species, Description of a New Siberian Species, and Comparison with British Weichselian Faunas
Abstract: The five Helophorus species described by Łomnicki (1894) from fossils in oil-impregnated Pleistocene silts at Borislav, near Lvov, are redescribed and indentified as modern species. Four of Lomnicki’s names fall into synonymy, but the fifth, H. praenanus , replaces H. jacutus Poppius for an eastern Siberian species. The fossil Helophorus collected along with the Woolly Rhinoceros by the University of Krakow expedition to Starunia in 1929 are identified, and nine species, all still extant, are present in the sample. These include four species which today live over much of Europe, two which are exclusively eastern Siberian, one found in both eastern Siberia and arctic North America, and two which are widely distributed over Siberia and extend into northern Europe and North America. It is concluded that the climate at Starunia during the period when the deposit was laid down was colder and more continental than at present, but it is stressed that since the assemblage of species found as fossils at Starunia does not exist in any one place today, there may be no exact modern climatic equivalent to Pleistocene Starunia. The Starunia Helophorus fauna is compared with the O rthoptera as described by Zeuner (1934). In both cases there is a mixture of European and Siberian species, but the O rthoptera differ from the Helophorus in including a num ber of montane species. Neither group contains any species today found only in the high arctic. The Starunia deposit has been 14 C dated at about 23000 years B.P., and its fauna is compared with British faunas from the same general period of the last glaciation. The faunas are broadly similar, but the Starunia fauna shows evidence of greater dampness perhaps associated with the period of maximum Weichselian glacierization. The Siberian Helophorus formerly included in H. hrevipalpis Bedel, present in both the Starunia sample and British deposits, is shown to be a distinct species, and is described as H. aspericollis , sp.nov.
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The Pleistocene succession around Brandon. Warwickshire
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A new look at the type Wolstonian glacial deposits of Central England
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Two new species of Micropeplus from the Pliocene of western Alaska with remarks on the evolution of Micropeplinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
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A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire
TL;DR: A large fauna and a large flora are described from terrace deposits of the River Salwarpe at Upton Warren, Worcestershire, which are ascribed to the beginning of the Gottweig Interstadial, immediately following the maximum of the Midland Irish Sea Glaciation.
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The Pleistocene Deposits of the Area between Coventry, Rugby and Leamington and their Bearing upon the Topographic Development of the Midlands
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An Insect Fauna from Mid-Weichselian Deposits at Brandon, Warwickshire
TL;DR: An interpretation of the climatic regime based on the northern requirements of the species in this fauna, suggests that conditions were more severe than for any other entomologically investigated site.
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A pleistocene coleopterous fauna with arctic affinities from fladbury, worcestershire
TL;DR: A fauna of fossil beetles has been obtained from a sample of peat-like material from the base of No2 Terrace of the river Avon at Fladbury, Worcestershire as discussed by the authors.
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The Pleistocene succession around Brandon. Warwickshire
TL;DR: In this paper, six separate episodes of cryoturbation are placed in the time sequence and the vicissitudes of climate, erosion and aggradation are integrated with a time scale.