AZC 46 Supplement (2003)

Issue:

VOL NA

Keywords:

Beetles, charcoal, Cretaceous, Wealden, new species

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‘Burnt’ beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the Wealden of southern England

• Edmund A. JARZEMBOWSKI

Abstract:

Insect remains preserved as fusain (mineral charcoal) are reported from the Lower Weald Clay (early Cretaceous: Hauterivian) of the English Weald. The ultrastructure, geochemistry and a new species Coleopteron semicrematus sp. nov. are described. Fusainised Coleoptera may represent a bush community prone to wildfire.