Where: Oregon (44.1° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 109.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Big Basin Member (John Day Formation), Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; tuffaceous shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression
Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1927. Tertiary Fossil Insects from Eastern Oregon. In R. Kellogg, J. Merriam, C. Stock, R. Chaney, H. Mason (eds.), Additions to the Paleontology of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin Regions of North America 346:64-65 [M. Clapham/A. Aguilar/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 117157: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Alex Aguilar on 16.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Alnus carpinoides Lesquereux 1883 alder | |
Insecta | |
Somatochlora oregonica n. sp.
Somatochlora oregonica n. sp. Cockerell 1927 green-eyed skimmer | |
"Passalus indormitus n. sp." = Passalus (Passalus) indormitus
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