Nicola river (Eocene of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.1° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 54.8° N, 103.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Princeton Group, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• "Below main coal seam." Scudder, 1890

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified shale and lithified siltstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by G.M. Dawson in 1877; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1879. Appendix A. The fossil insects collected in 1877, by Mr. G.M. Dawson, in the interior of British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Report of Progress for 1877-1878 175-185 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122190: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 18.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
? Cercyon terrigena n. sp.
? Cercyon terrigena n. sp. Scudder 1879 water scavenger beetle
GSC 57
 Coleoptera - Elateridae
? Elateridae indet., "? Cryptohypnus terrestris n. sp." = Ligmargus terrestris
? Elateridae indet. Leach 1815 click beetle
GSC 60
"? Cryptohypnus terrestris n. sp." = Ligmargus terrestris Scudder 1879 click beetle
GSC 59, and another referred to this species
 Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Buprestis tertiaria n. sp., Buprestis saxigena n. sp., Buprestis sepulta n. sp.
Buprestis tertiaria n. sp. Scudder 1879 jewel beetle
GSC 48, 51(52), 54
Buprestis saxigena n. sp. Scudder 1879 jewel beetle
GSC 47(54), 49, 50, 55, 56
Buprestis sepulta n. sp. Scudder 1879 jewel beetle
GSC 53
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
"Nebria paleomelas n. sp." = Amara paleomelas
"Nebria paleomelas n. sp." = Amara paleomelas Scudder 1879 ground beetle
GSC 58