PBDB Collection

Scarborough Bluffs (Hinde collection): Late/Upper Pleistocene, Canada
collected by George J. Hinde

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae

	Donacia stiria n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	1 specimen
	Hinde 14558 (1 measurement)

	Donacia pompatica n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	5 specimens
	Hinde 14566, 14573, 14577, 14581, 14582 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera

	Loricera glacialis n. sp. Scudder 1877		1 specimen
	nomen dubium belonging to Curculionoidea
	Hinde 16416(16417) (1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

	? Hylastes squalidens n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1895
	recombined as Phloeosinus squalidens
	larval mines in tree branch
Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae

	? Loricera lutosa n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	1 specimen
	synonym of Aegialia lacustris
	Hinde 14559 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

	Bledius glaciatus n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	1 specimen
	Hinde 14540 (1 measurement)

	Lathrobium interglaciale n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	1 specimen
	Hinde 14555 (1 measurement)

	Arpedium stillicidii n. sp. Scudder 1895	Scudder 1895	1 specimen
	Hinde 14511 (1 measurement)

	Geodromicus stiricidii n. sp. Scudder 1895	Scudder 1895	1 specimen
	Hinde 14537 (1 measurement)

	Oxyporus stiriacus n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	1 specimen
	Hinde 14552 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

	Bembidium glaciatum n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	2 specimens
	Hinde 14536, 14541 (1 measurement)

	Loxandrus gelidus n. sp. Scudder 1877		2 specimens
	recombined as Pterostichus gelidus
	Hinde 14521, 16418 (3 measurements)

	Pterostichus destitutus n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	1 specimen
	Hinde 14522 (1 measurement)

	Pterostichus abrogatus n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	1 specimen
	Hinde 14560 (1 measurement)

	Pterostichus destructus n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	2 specimens
	Hinde 14519, 14549 (2 measurements)

	Pterostichus fractus n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	1 specimen
	Hinde 14532 (1 measurement)

	Patrobus gelatus n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	1 specimen
	synonym of Patrobus stygicus
	Hinde 14586 (1 measurement)

	Platynus desuetus n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	6 specimens
	Hinde 14477, 478, 486, 516, 526, 538 (1 measurement)

	Platynus hindei n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	9 specimens
	Hinde 14512, 514, 518, 528, 533, 544, 546, 554, 562 (1 measurement)

	Platynus harttii n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	2 specimens
	Hinde 14475, 14480 (1 measurement)

	Platynus dilapidatus n. sp. Scudder 1895	Scudder 1895	1 specimen
	Hinde 14513

	Platynus casus n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	1 specimen
	Hinde 14523 (1 measurement)

	Platynus dissipatus n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	2 specimens
	Hinde 14515, 14563 (1 measurement)

	Platynus halli n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	3 specimens
	Hinde 14520, 524, 525 (1 measurement)

	Elaphrus irregularis n. sp. Scudder 1890	Scudder 1890	1 specimen
	nomen dubium belonging to Elaphrus
	Hinde 14527 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography

Country:	Canada	State/province:	Ontario
Coordinates:	43.7° North, 79.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	43.7° North, 79.2° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

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:

Scarborough

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	unlithified siltstone
Lithology description: "Mr. George J. Hinde has discovered vegetable and animal remains in thin seams in clay beds which he regards as interglacial, lying as they do upon a morainal till of a special character and overlain by till of another and quite distinct kind." Scudder, 1890
Environment:	lacustrine deltaic indet.	Tectonic setting:	non-subsiding area

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	mesofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Collectors:	George J. Hinde

Metadata

Database number:	122182
Authorizer:	M. Clapham	Enterer:	J. Karr, M. Clapham
Modifier:	M. Clapham	Research group:	paleoentomology
Created:	2011-12-18 17:17:30	Last modified:	2015-12-15 18:43:27
Access level:	the public	Released:	2011-12-18 17:17:30
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

56747.

S. H. Scudder. 1877. Description of two species of Carabidae found in the interglacial deposits of Scarboro Heights, near Toronto, Canada. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 3:763-764 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

5136	ETE 848	S. H. Scudder. 1890. The Tertiary Insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII:1-734 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/L. Edwards]
49116		S. H. Scudder. 1895. Canadian fossil insects, myriapods and arachnids, 2. The Coleoptera hitherto found fossil in Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 2(1):27-56 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]