# PALE Fossil Beetle Data
# Standard ascii format for beetle assemblages
# Created by Matt Duvall
# 8/6/98
#
# Sitename:     Flounder Flat Section
# Location:     Alaska, USA
# Latitude:     59.0 N      (59.00)
# Longitude:    158.27 W    (-158.45)
# Contact:      Scott Elias
# Sample Name:  3-M-8
# Sample age:   12500 +\-1000
# C14 Lab #:    COR
# Note: Modern beetle presence/absence data and modern site 
# climatologies for North Americal are also available via 
# ftp from this site. 

Species present in sample: 

  CARABIDAE Diacheila polita
  STAPHYLINIDAE Olophrum latum
  CARABIDAE Patrobus stygicus
  CARABIDAE Trechus apicalis
  CARABIDAE Bembidion concretum
  CARABIDAE Bembidion gratiosum
  CARABIDAE Pterostichus agonus
  CARABIDAE Pterostichus  arcticola
  CARABIDAE Pterostichus  brevicornis
  CARABIDAE Pterostichus  caribou
  CARABIDAE Pterostichus haematopus
  CARABIDAE Pterostichus  similis
  CARABIDAE Trichocellus mannerheimi
  DYTISCIDAE Ilybius discidens
  HYDROPHILIDAE Helophorus auricollis
  STAPHYLINIDAE Olophrum boreale
  STAPHYLINIDAE Olophrum consimile
  STAPHYLINIDAE Olophrum rotundicolle
  STAPHYLINIDAE Tachyporus canadensis
  STAPHYLINIDAE Tachyporus rulomus
  LEPTODIRIDAE Catops alpinus
  CURCULIONIDAE Notaris aethiops

***  MCR Values ***
Value	Variable

12.5	Upper estimate maximum monthly average temperature
13	Lower estimate maximum monthly average temperature
12.8	Calib. estimate maximum monthly average temperature
12.7	Modern maximum monthly average temperature
0.1	MCR maximum monthly average temperature anomaly
-30.5	Upper estimate minimum monthly average temperature
-28	Lower estimate minimum monthly average temperature
-27.5	Calib. estimate minimum monthly average temperature
-9.4	Modern minimum monthly average temperature
-18.1	MCR minimum monthly average temperature anomaly