The fauna of the channel deposit of early Saalian age at Brandon, Warwickshire
- 31 December 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences
- Vol. 254 (796) , 417-424
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1968.0020
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.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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