Florissant, Station 22 (Eocene of the United States)

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

• "shales"

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by W. P. Cockerell, G. N. Rohwer, S. A. Rohwer, M. Smith in 1908; reposited in the UCM

Primary reference: S. A. Rohwer. 1908. The Tertiary Tenthredinoidea of the Expedition of 1908 to Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:591-595 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122628: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Tenthredinidae
Tenthredo saxorum n. sp.
Tenthredo saxorum n. sp. Rohwer 1908 wood wasp
S.A. Rohwer, 1908