Where: Utah (40.0° N, 109.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 95.6° W)
When: Green River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• "from the lowest beds"
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; diatomaceous shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by S. Scudder
Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1892. Some Insects of special interest from Florissant, Colorado and other points in the Tertiaries of Colorado and Utah. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 93:1-25 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 116369: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Alex Aguilar on 07.09.2011, edited by Jered Karr and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Asilus palaeolestes n. sp.2
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"Asilopsis fusculus n. gen. n. sp." = Cyttaromyia fuscula1 Cockerell 1921 long bodied crane fly USNM 66572 (coll. Scudder)
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Eobracon cladurus n. gen. n. sp.1
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Cicindelopsis eophilus n. gen. n. sp.1
Cicindelopsis eophilus n. gen. n. sp.1 Cockerell 1921 false darkling beetle USNM 66576 (coll. Scudder)
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"Melolonthites avus n. sp." = Phyllophaga avus2
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