Also known as Canadian amber

Where: Manitoba, Canada (53.5° N, 100.6° W: paleocoordinates 58.0° N, 62.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original chitin, amber

Collected by R.D. Bird, W.J. Brown in 1950

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Specimens sometime given CAS numbers, sometimes CNC numbers, but all are deposited in the Canadian National Collection.

Primary reference: K. G. A. Hamilton. 1971. A remarkable fossil homopteran from Canadian Cretaceous amber representing a new family. The Canadian Entomologist 103:943-946 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122386: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.12.2011

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