Coleopteran faunas as indicators of interglacial climates in central and southern England

Coleopteran assemblages are now known from most of the British interglacials. Almost all the faunas discussed here date from that phase of each interglacial when mixed deciduous forests dominated the landscape and where its thermal maximum might have been expected. For convenience the interglacials will be provisionally allocated to the notional framework of the Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) numbers. These allocations progressively become more...