# PALE Fossil Beetle Data
# Standard ascii format for beetle assemblages
# Created by Matt Duvall
# 8/6/98
#
# Sitename:     Kulukbuk Bluff Section
# Location:     Alaska, USA
# Latitude:     60.35 N      (60.58)
# Longitude:    156.25 W    (-156.42)
# Contact:      Scott Elias
# Sample Name:  Unit C, B
# Sample age:   30000 +\-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
  CARABIDAE Amara alpina
  STAPHYLINIDAE Tachinus brevipennis
  CARABIDAE Diacheila arctica
  CARABIDAE Elaphrus parviceps
  CARABIDAE Elaphrus tuberculatus
  CARABIDAE Pterostichus agonus
  CARABIDAE Pterostichus  arcticola
  CARABIDAE Pterostichus  brevicornis
  CARABIDAE Pterostichus  caribou
  CARABIDAE Pterostichus  empetricola
  CARABIDAE Pterostichus  similis
  CARABIDAE Pterostichus  tareumiut
  STAPHYLINIDAE Olophrum boreale
  STAPHYLINIDAE Stenus  vinnulus
  CURCULIONIDAE Apion alaskanum
  SCOLYTIDAE Polygraphus rufipennis

***  MCR Values ***
Value	Variable

12.25	Upper estimate maximum monthly average temperature
13	Lower estimate maximum monthly average temperature
12.7	Calib. estimate maximum monthly average temperature
14.8	Modern maximum monthly average temperature
-2.1	MCR maximum monthly average temperature anomaly
-30.75	Upper estimate minimum monthly average temperature
-28	Lower estimate minimum monthly average temperature
-27.6	Calib. estimate minimum monthly average temperature
-22.6	Modern minimum monthly average temperature
-5	MCR minimum monthly average temperature anomaly