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The first record of Larix from the British Pleistocene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 1997

MICHAEL H. FIELD ,
P. L. GIBBARD  and
A. BRANDON
MICHAEL H. FIELD
Affiliation:
Centre for Quaternary Science, School of Natural & Environmental Sciences, Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK
P. L. GIBBARD
Affiliation:
Godwin Institute of Quaternary Research, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK
A. BRANDON
Affiliation:
British Geological Survey, Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK
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Abstract

The first British Pleistocene record of Larix (Larch) is described from the Brays Pit near Mathon in the English West Midlands. This new record is the most westerly from the European Pleistocene and is also beyond the western limit of the distribution of any extant species of Larix within Europe. Today there are no native species of Larix in the British Isles. The fossil remains comprise of macrofossils and pollen, which are not, however, well enough preserved to allow determination to species level. The fluvial sediments which yielded the fossils were probably deposited in the early Anglian Stage or possibly during an earlier Pleistocene event.

Type
Research Article
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 134 , Issue 3 , May 1997 , pp. 317 - 322
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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