Where: Colorado (39.9° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 94.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Green River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by D.E. Winchester & H.R. Bennett; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1919. The antiquity of the Ichneumonidae. The Entomologist 52:121-122 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 115103: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Alex Aguilar on 27.08.2011, edited by Jered Karr
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
| |
Pimpla eocenica n. sp.
| |
Philorites pallescens n. sp.
| |
"Lithohypoderma ascarides" = Cuterebra ascarides
|