Tulameen river, 400 yards west of old entry portal (Eocene of Canada)

Also known as site 7m

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.4° N, 120.6° 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 of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by W.L. Fry in 1957

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float),

Primary reference: H. M. A. Rice. 1959. Fossil Bibionidae (Diptera) from British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 55:1-36 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120940: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 24.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Bibionidae
Plecia pictipennis Handlirsch 1910 love bug
GSC 14477
Plecia tulameenensis Rice 1959 love bug
GSC 14438
Plecia reducta Handlirsch 1910 love bug
GSC 14447
Plecia avus Handlirsch 1910 love bug
GSC 14461
? Penthetria fryi Rice 1959 march fly
GSC 14417