Where: Teller County, Colorado (38.9° N, 105.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 97.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Florissant Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, diatomaceous, tuffaceous shale
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by T.L. Mead
Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1876. Fossil Coleoptera from the Rocky Mountain Tertiaries. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 2(1):77-87 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/J. Karr]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 121307: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 02.12.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Oryctoscirtetes protogaeum n. gen. n. sp., Spermophagus vivificatus n. sp.
Spermophagus vivificatus n. sp. Scudder 1876 leaf beetle | |
Anthonomus defossus n. sp., Eurhinus occultus n. sp.
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Chrysobothris haydeni n. sp.
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Chauliognathus pristinus n. sp.
Chauliognathus pristinus n. sp. Scudder 1876 soldier beetle | |
"Labidura tertiaria n. sp." = Geroncolabis tertiaria
"Labidura tertiaria n. sp." = Geroncolabis tertiaria Scudder 1876 earwig | |
"Homoeogamia ventriosus n. sp." = Homoeogamia ventriosa
"Homoeogamia ventriosus n. sp." = Homoeogamia ventriosa Scudder 1876 cockroach |