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
Collected by J.F. McAlpine, H. Teskey in 1973
• Specimens sometime given CAS numbers, sometimes CNC numbers, but all are deposited in the Canadian National Collection.
Primary reference: C. M. Yoshimoto. 1975. Cretaceous chalcidoid fossils from Canadian Amber. The Canadian Entomologist 107:499-528 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122383: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Sphaeropsocoides canadensis n. gen. n. sp.7
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"Archaeromma minutissima" = Archaeromma minutissimum, "Archaeromma nearctica" = Archaeromma nearcticum
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Triadomerus bulbosus, Macalpinia canadensis n. gen. n. sp.
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"Baeomorpha ovatata" = Baeomorpha ovatata, "Baeomorpha elongata" = Baeomorpha ovatata, "Baeomorpha distincta" = Baeomorpha ovatata
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Tagsmiphron spiculum n. sp.10
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Electralberta cretacica n. gen. n. sp.3
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Longiradius foottitti n. gen. n. sp.8
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Minyohelea pumilis2, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) primaevus n. sp.2, Atriculicoides globosus2, Culicoides filipalpis2, Culicoides canadensis2, Culicoides tyrrelli2, Peronehelea chrimikalydia n. gen. n. sp.2, Palaeobrachypogon vetus2
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Collembola | |
Bellingeria cornua n. gen. n. sp.4
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