Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (UASM collection) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Canadian amber

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.8° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 57.2° N, 76.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Taber coal Member (Foremost Formation), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Foremost Formation is likely middle Campanian in age, see Fowler et al. 2017 supplementary data for more details on age constraints of the Foremost Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original chitin, amber

Collection methods: University of Alberta Strickland Entomology Museum

Primary reference: R. C. McKellar and M. S. Engel. 2011. The serphitid wasps (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha: Serphitoidea) of Canadian Cretaceous amber. Systematic Entomology 36:192-208 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122357: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2011, edited by Jered Karr

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Microphysidae
Popovophysa entzmingeri n. gen. n. sp.3
Popovophysa entzmingeri n. gen. n. sp.3 McKellar and Engel 2011 true bug
UASM 22323 (coll. V. Leuck, 2004)
 Hymenoptera - Serphitidae
Serphites pygmaeus McKellar and Engel 2011 wasp
UASM 213 563-565
Serphites bruesi McKellar and Engel 2011 wasp
UASM 213 566-569
Serphites paradoxus Brues 1937 wasp
UASM 213 561
Serphites hynemani McKellar and Engel 2011 wasp
UASM 213 562
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
? Formicidae indet.5 Latreille 1802 ant
UASM 336803
Haidoterminus cippus n. gen. n. sp.6 McKellar et al. 2013 hell ant
UASM 332546
Chronomyrmex medicinehatensis n. gen. n. sp.5 McKellar et al. 2013 ant
UASM 336801, 336802
 Hymenoptera - Chrysididae
? Cleptinae indet.4 Latreille 1802 cuckoo wasp
UASM 336806
Procleptes hopejohnsonae n. sp.4 McKellar and Engel 2014 cuckoo wasp
UASM 336804
 Hymenoptera - Scolebythidae
Sphakelobythus limnopous n. gen. n. sp.1, Necrobythus pulcher n. gen. n. sp.1
Sphakelobythus limnopous n. gen. n. sp.1 Engel et al. 2013 wasp
UASM 332548, 332549 (S. Leuck coll.)
Necrobythus pulcher n. gen. n. sp.1 Engel et al. 2013 wasp
UASM 332547
 Hymenoptera - Stigmaphronidae
Tagsmiphron exitorum n. sp.2 McKellar and Engel 2011 wasp
UASM 22322
Tagsmiphron leucki n. sp.2 McKellar and Engel 2011 wasp
UASM 22321