Geron platysoma Cockerell 1915 (bee fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Bombyliidae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1915. Miocene fossil insects. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 66:634-648

Belongs to Geron according to N. L. Evenhuis and D. J. Greathead 1999

See also Cockerell 1915

Sister taxa: Geron figuratus, Geron oligocaenicus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Wilson Ranch, Florissant, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large horizon in the Florissant Formation of Colorado

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Wilson Ranch, Florissant

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