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Last interglacial beetle fauna from New Zealand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Maureen J. Marra
Maureen J. Marra*
Affiliation:
School of Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
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E- mail address: maureen.marra@vuw.ac.nz (M.J. Marra).
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Abstract

Fossil beetles from two last interglacial lake deposits from southern Wairarapa, central New Zealand are provisionally ascribed to marine oxygen isotope stages (MIS) 5a–e. Both assemblages represent ecological successions from lake margins to forest. The lower sample (MIS 5e) is characterized by species found today in northern New Zealand. These species, including Lorelus crassicornis, ‘Dasytes’ laticeps, Cryptobius nitidius, ‘Stenomalium’ sulcithorax, Psilocnaeia nana, and Microbrontes lineatus, represent a southward displacement from modern distributions by up to 700 km. Climate reconstruction indicates that temperatures at the time of deposition were 1.6–2.5°C warmer in the summer (January) and 2.3–3.2°C warmer in the winter (July) than at present. These results match local and regional pollen and phytolith findings of warmer, wetter conditions at the thermal maximum of the last interglaciation. In contrast, the upper sample is characterized by species that have widespread modern-day distributions. This indicates that modern conditions were attained later in MIS5, after the MIS 5e thermal maximum.

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WairarapaNew ZealandBeetle fossilsLast interglaciationPaleoclimate
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Quaternary Research , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , January 2003 , pp. 122 - 131
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Elsevier Science (USA)

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