Below Princeton General Hospital (Eocene of Canada)

Also known as site 7j

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.5° N, 120.5° W: paleocoordinates 54.1° N, 103.7° 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 121040: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 25.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Bibionidae
Plecia transitoria Handlirsch 1910 love bug
GSC 14469