Right Branch Tulameen river, 1.5 miles above Princeton (Eocene of Canada)

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

Insecta
 Diptera - Bibionidae
"Penthetria ? pictipennis" = Plecia pictipennis, Plecia curtula, "Penthetria pulchra n. sp." = Plecia pulchra
"Penthetria ? pictipennis" = Plecia pictipennis Handlirsch 1910 love bug
Collected August 7
Plecia curtula Handlirsch 1910 love bug
GSC 14429
"Penthetria pulchra n. sp." = Plecia pulchra Handlirsch 1910 love bug
Collected August 7
 Dicondylia -
Coleoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 beetle
Collected August 7
 Coleoptera - Elateridae
Elateridae indet. Leach 1815 click beetle
Collected August 7