Station A Green River (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Colorado (39.3° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 94.7° W)

When: Green River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; diatomaceous shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by U. Lanham & J. Player; reposited in the UCM

Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1941. Some Tertiary Insects (Hymenoptera) from Colorado. American Journal of Science, Series 5 239:354-356 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117820: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Alex Aguilar on 27.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Specimens kept at the University of Colorado Museum
Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae
"Plectiscidea lanhami n. sp." = Allomacrus lanhami
"Plectiscidea lanhami n. sp." = Allomacrus lanhami Cockerell 1941 ichneumon wasp