White River (Scudder collection) (Eocene of the United States)

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

Insecta
 Diptera - Cylindrotomidae
"Asilopsis fusculus n. gen. n. sp." = Cyttaromyia fuscula1, Cyttaromyia fenestrata1
"Asilopsis fusculus n. gen. n. sp." = Cyttaromyia fuscula1 Cockerell 1921 long bodied crane fly
USNM 66572 (coll. Scudder)
Cyttaromyia fenestrata1 Scudder 1877 long bodied crane fly
 Diptera - Asilidae
Asilus palaeolestes n. sp.2 Cockerell 1921 robber fly
USNM 66922
 Diptera - Stratiomyidae
Sargus vetus n. sp.2 Cockerell 1921 soldier fly
USNM 66923
Nemotelus eocenicus n. sp.2 Cockerell 1921 soldier fly
USNM 66924
 Hymenoptera - Braconidae
Eobracon cladurus n. gen. n. sp.1
Eobracon cladurus n. gen. n. sp.1 Cockerell 1921 wasp
USNM 66583 (coll. Scudder)
 Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae
Phygadeuon petrifactellus n. sp.1 Cockerell 1921 ichneumon wasp
USNM 66580 (coll. Scudder)
Tilgidopsis haesitans n. gen. n. sp.2 Cockerell 1921 ichneumon wasp
USNM 66931
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Carabites eocenicus n. sp.1 Cockerell 1921 ground beetle
USNM 66577 (coll. Scudder)
Carabites exanimus n. sp. Scudder 1892 ground beetle
USGS 624(626)
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
"Melolonthites avus n. sp." = Phyllophaga avus2
"Melolonthites avus n. sp." = Phyllophaga avus2 Cockerell 1921 scarab beetle
USNM 66929
 Coleoptera - Melandryidae
Cicindelopsis eophilus n. gen. n. sp.1
Cicindelopsis eophilus n. gen. n. sp.1 Cockerell 1921 false darkling beetle
USNM 66576 (coll. Scudder)
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Coniatus refractus3 Scudder 1893 snout beetle
USGS 593(601)