Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (UASM collection): Middle Campanian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Hemiptera - Microphysidae
Popovophysa entzmingeri n. gen., n. sp. McKellar and Engel 2011
McKellar and Engel 2011 1 specimen
UASM 22323 (coll. V. Leuck, 2004)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Serphitidae
Serphites hynemani McKellar and Engel 2011
1 specimen
UASM 213 562
Serphites pygmaeus McKellar and Engel 2011
3 specimens
UASM 213 563-565
Serphites paradoxus Brues 1937
1 specimen
UASM 213 561
Serphites bruesi McKellar and Engel 2011
4 specimens
UASM 213 566-569
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Chrysididae
? Cleptinae indet. (Latreille 1802)
McKellar and Engel 2014 1 specimen
original and current combination Cleptiosa
UASM 336806
Procleptes hopejohnsonae n. sp. McKellar and Engel 2014
McKellar and Engel 2014 1 specimen
UASM 336804 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Scolebythidae
Sphakelobythus limnopous n. gen., n. sp. Engel et al. 2013
Engel et al. 2013 2 specimens
UASM 332548, 332549 (S. Leuck coll.) (2 measurements)
Necrobythus pulcher n. gen., n. sp. Engel et al. 2013
Engel et al. 2013 1 specimen
UASM 332547 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
? Formicidae indet. (Latreille 1802)
McKellar et al. 2013 1 specimen
original and current combination Formicariae
UASM 336803
Chronomyrmex medicinehatensis n. gen., n. sp. McKellar et al. 2013
McKellar et al. 2013 2 specimens
UASM 336801, 336802 (1 measurement)
Haidoterminus cippus n. gen., n. sp. McKellar et al. 2013
McKellar et al. 2013 1 specimen
UASM 332546 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Stigmaphronidae
Tagsmiphron exitorum n. sp. McKellar and Engel 2011
McKellar and Engel 2011 1 specimen
UASM 22322
Tagsmiphron leucki n. sp. McKellar and Engel 2011
McKellar and Engel 2011 1 specimen
UASM 22321
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 49.8° North, 111.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:57.2° North, 76.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Middle Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Belly River Formation:Foremost Member:Taber coal
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Foremost Formation is likely middle Campanian in age, see Fowler et al. 2017 supplementary data for more details on age constraints of the Foremost Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: amber
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original chitin,amber
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: University of Alberta Strickland Entomology Museum
Metadata
Also known as:Canadian amber
Database number:122357
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham, J. Karr
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2011-12-22 07:15:52 Last modified:2022-03-21 06:37:04
Access level:the public Released:2011-12-22 07:15:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
38956. R. C. McKellar and M. S. Engel. 2011. The serphitid wasps (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha: Serphitoidea) of Canadian Cretaceous amber. Systematic Entomology 36:192-208 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

48549 M. S. Engel, J. Ortega-Blanco, and R. C. McKellar. 2013. New scolebythid wasps in Cretaceous amber from Spain and Canada, with implications for the phylogeny of the family (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae). Cretaceous Research 46:31-42 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
39576 R. C. McKellar and M. S. Engel. 2011. New Stigmaphronidae and Megaspilidae (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea) from Canadian Cretaceous amber. Cretaceous Research 32:794-805 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
40153 R. C. McKellar and M. S. Engel. 2011. First Mesozoic Microphysidae (Hemiptera): a new genus and species in Late Cretaceous amber from Canada. The Canadian Entomologist 143:349-357 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]
53444 R. C. McKellar and M. S. Engel. 2014. New bethylid and chrysidid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) from Canadian Late Cretaceous amber. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 88:433-451 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47972 R. C. McKellar, J. R. N. Glasier, and M. S. Engel. 2013. New ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) from Canadian Late Cretaceous amber. Bulletin of Geosciences 88:583-594 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47973 R. C. McKellar, J. R. N. Glasier, and M. S. Engel. 2013. A new trap-jawed ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Haidomyrmecini) from Canadian Late Cretaceous amber. The Canadian Entomologist 145:454-465 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]