Also known as Site 7e
Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.5° 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; lithified shale and lithified siltstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by G.M. Dawson in 1888; reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1895. Canadian fossil insects, myriapods and arachnids, 1. The Tertiary Hemiptera of British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 2(1):5-26 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 121046: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 25.11.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham and Karl Volkman
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dicotyledoneae | |
Vaccinophyllum quaestum n. sp.1
Vaccinophyllum quaestum n. sp.1 Dawson 1890 | |
Angiospermae | |
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"Populus obtrita n. sp." = Cercidiphyllum obtritum1
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"Nelumbium pygmaeum n. sp." = Nelumbo pygmaea1
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Comptonia columbiana n. sp.1 Dawson 1890
Comptonia cuspidata1 Lesquereux 1882 | |
Alnites curta n. sp.1
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Ulmites pusillus n. sp.1
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Insecta | |
"Ricania antiquata n. sp." = Ricaniella antiquata
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Cryptocephalites punctatus n. gen. n. sp.3
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Palaphrodes sp., Palaeoptysma venosa n. gen. n. sp., Aphrophora sp., Ptysmaphora fletcheri n. gen. n. sp.
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Stenecphora punctulata n. gen. n. sp., Stenolocris venosa n. gen. n. sp., Cercopis grandescens n. sp., Dawsonites veter n. gen. n. sp., Cercopites torpescens n. sp., Palecphora sp.
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