Also known as Rifle Gap

Where: Garfield County, Colorado (39.5° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 44.1° N, 92.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Green River Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• "Eocene" (presumably Wasatchian or Bridgerian based on formational assignment; certainly not Late Eocene)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by J. Moore; reposited in the UCM

Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1933. A second moth from the Colorado Eocene. American Naturalist 67:479-480 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 106386: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 13.03.2011

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