Where: Colorado (38.9° N, 105.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 97.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Florissant Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, diatomaceous, tuffaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by A.E. Foote

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1876. Brief synopsis of North America earwigs, with an appendix on the fossil species. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 2:249-260 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119496: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Trisha Wolfe on 28.10.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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