Where: Colorado (38.8° N, 108.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 94.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Green River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Winchester; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Eocene Insects from the Rocky Mountains. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 57:233-260 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 121193: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 30.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
"Diomonus palaeospilus n. sp." = Leptomorphus palaeospilus
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