Fossil CaƱon (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Utah (38.9° N, 109.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 95.9° W)
When: Green River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; diatomaceous shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression
Collected by W. Denton
Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1875. The Tertiary Physopoda of Colorado. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 2(1):221-223 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/J. Karr]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 121147: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 28.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Paropsocus disjunctus n. gen. n. sp.4
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Bembidium exoletum n. sp.2
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Leistotrophus patriarchicus n. sp.2
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Oxygonus mortuus n. sp.2
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Epiphanis deletus n. sp.2
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Pachymerus petrensis n. sp.3
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"Lithadothrips vetusta n. gen. n. sp." = Lithadothrips vetustus, Palaeothrips fossilis n. gen. n. sp.1
"Lithadothrips vetusta n. gen. n. sp." = Lithadothrips vetustus Scudder 1875 thrips | |
Lasioptera recessa n. sp.3
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Acrocera hirsuta n. sp.3
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Gnoriste dentoni n. sp.3
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Cyttaromyia fenestrata n. gen. n. sp.3
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Pronophlebia rediviva n. gen. n. sp.3, "Dicranomyia stigmosa n. sp." = Dicranomyia stigmosa3, "Tipula tecta n. sp." = Dicranomyia stigmosa3, Dicranomyia primitiva n. sp.3, "Dicranomyia rostrata n. sp." = Dicranomyia rostrata3, "Tipula decrepita n. sp." = Dicranomyia rostrata3
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Culex proavitus n. sp.3
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