Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.4° N, 120.5° W: paleocoordinates 54.1° N, 103.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vermilion Bluffs Member (Allenby Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• The "Hospital Hill" exposure of the Vermilion Bluffs Shale in Princeton is estimated to be 52.08 +/- 0.12 million years old (Archibald, 2005).
• group-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression
Collected by Lawrence M. Lambe in 1906
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float),
Primary reference: A. Handlirsch. 1910. Canadian fossil Insects. 5. Insects from the Tertiary lake deposits of the southern interior of British Columbia, collected by Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe. Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 2(3):93-129 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 119863: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Penthetria ? pictipennis" = Plecia pictipennis, Plecia curtula, "Penthetria pulchra n. sp." = Plecia pulchra
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