Denson site (UCM collection) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Colorado (39.5° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 94.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Parachute Creek Member (Green River Formation), Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified lime mudstone

• Laramide-style block faulting

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by D. Kohls; reposited in the UCM

Primary reference: M. Brazidec and V. Perrichot. 2022. A fossil flat wasp (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) from the early Eocene Green River Formation suggests past cosmopolitan distribution of the genus Eupsenella Westwood, 1874. Palaeoentomology 5:378-384 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229578: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.03.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Bethylidae
Eupsenella sp. Westwood 1874 flat wasp
UCM 58339