Crow Creek, 15 miles NE of Greeley (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Colorado (40.5° N, 104.6° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 80.5° W)

When: Laramie Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lignite

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Dr. C.A. White

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1878. An Account of Some Insects of Unusual Interest from the Tertiary Rocks of Colorado and Wyoming. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 4(2):519-543 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121286: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 01.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Megaloptera - Corydalidae
Corydalites fecundum n. gen. n. sp.
Corydalites fecundum n. gen. n. sp. Scudder 1878 dobsonfly
remarkable egg masses