Also known as 11 miles east of Post, Oregon
Where: Oregon (44.1° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 109.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: John Day Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
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 117158: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Alex Aguilar on 16.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Acer osmonti Knowlton 1902 maple | |
Insecta | |
"Cecidomyia chaneyi n. sp." = Acericecis chaneyi
"Cecidomyia chaneyi n. sp." = Acericecis chaneyi Cockerell 1927 gall midge |