Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (CNC July 1971 collection) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Canadian amber

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.8° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 57.2° N, 76.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Taber coal Member (Foremost Formation), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• 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.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original chitin, amber

Collected by J.F. McAlpine in 8-11, 1971

• Specimens sometime given CAS numbers, sometimes CNC numbers, but all are deposited in the Canadian National Collection.

Primary reference: C. M. Yoshimoto. 1975. Cretaceous chalcidoid fossils from Canadian Amber. The Canadian Entomologist 107:499-528 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104932: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 11.02.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Leptoconops (Leptoconops) primaevus1 Borkent 1995 biting midge
CAS 335, 462
Culicoides tyrrelli1 Boesel 1937 biting midge
CAS 287, 565
Culicoides filipalpis1 Remm 1976 biting midge
CAS 416, 492
Culicoides annosus1 Borkent 1995 biting midge
CAS 262
Peronehelea chrimikalydia1 Borkent 1995 biting midge
CAS 339a (2 specimens), b
Atriculicoides globosus1 Boesel 1937 biting midge
CAS 348a,b, 358, 386
 Diptera - Cecidomyiidae
Cretomiastor ferejunctus4 Gagné 1977 gall midge
CAS 380 and 425
 Hymenoptera - Liopteridae
Proliopteron redactus n. gen. n. sp.6
Proliopteron redactus n. gen. n. sp.6 Liu and Engel 2007 wasp
CAS 409
 Hymenoptera - Baeomorphidae
Baeomorpha dubitata Brues 1937 chalcid wasp
CNC 321
 Hymenoptera - Serphitidae
Serphites kuzminae7 McKellar and Engel 2011 wasp
CAS 498
Serphites paradoxus7 Brues 1937 wasp
CAS 473,562
 Hymenoptera - Mymarommatidae
"Archaeromma minutissima" = Archaeromma minutissimum
"Archaeromma minutissima" = Archaeromma minutissimum Brues 1937 false fairy wasp
CNC 543, 546
 Hymenoptera - Chrysididae
Chrysididae indet.8 Latreille 1802 cuckoo wasp
CNCI-CAS 538
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
"Sphecomyrma canadensis n. sp." = Boltonimecia canadensis9
"Sphecomyrma canadensis n. sp." = Boltonimecia canadensis9 Wilson 1985 ant
CAS 330
 Neuroptera - Hemerobiidae
Plesiorobius canadensis n. gen. n. sp.5
Plesiorobius canadensis n. gen. n. sp.5 Klimaszewski and Kevan 1986 brown lacewing
CNC 18446 (CAS 382)
 Neuroptera - Berothidae
Berothidae indet.3 Handlirsch 1906 beaded lacewing
CAS 383
Collembola
 Symphypleona - Sminthuridae
Brevimucronus anomalus n. gen. n. sp.2
Brevimucronus anomalus n. gen. n. sp.2 Christiansen and Pike 2002 globular springtail
CAS 293