Where: Colorado (39.8° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 93.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cathedral Bluffs Tongue Member (Wasatch Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Winchester; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Eocene Insects from the Rocky Mountains. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 57:233-260 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 105004: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.02.2011, edited by Alex Aguilar and Jered Karr
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dicranomyia primitiva Scudder 1877 crane fly | |
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Acanthomyites aldrichi n. gen. n. sp.1
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Syrphus lithaphidis n. sp.
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Rhamphomyia enena n. sp.1
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Eopimpla grandis n. gen. n. sp.
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Hydroptila phileos n. sp.
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Dinidorites margiformis n. gen. n. sp.1
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Delphax veterum n. sp.1
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Pronemobius ornatipes n. sp.1
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