Where: Teller County, Colorado (38.9° N, 105.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 97.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Florissant Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, diatomaceous, tuffaceous shale
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Mrs. Cockerell; reposited in the UCM
Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1908. Fossil Osmylidae (Neuroptera) in America. The Canadian Entomologist 40(10):341-343 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 106453: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Osmylus columbianus n. sp." = Lithosmylus columbianus
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