Also known as USGS 17.3
Where: Colorado (39.6° N, 108.4° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 92.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Green River Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by D.E. 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 105005: 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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Culex winchesteri n. sp.1
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Palaeoplatyura eocenica n. sp.
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Protoliarus humatus n. gen. n. sp.
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Lithopsis delicata n. sp.
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? Hammapteryx ceryniiformis n. sp., ? Hammapteryx lepidoides n. sp., Dilaropsis ornatus n. gen. n. sp.
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Cercopis cephalinus n. sp.
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"Eoformica eocenica n. gen. n. sp." = Eoformica pinguis2
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Lebia protospiloptera n. sp.2
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Sciabregma tenuicornis n. sp.2
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