Florissant (Rusk, Duce 1909 coll) (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 Willard Rusk, Terry Duce in 1909; reposited in the UCM

• Collected summer 1909. Presented to the Museum of the University of Colorado

Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1909. New fossil insects from Florissant, Colorado. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 2:251-256 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122742: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.01.2012, edited by Amy Delelli and Jered Karr

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Tenthredinidae
"Eriocampoides revelatus n. sp." = Caliroa revelata
"Eriocampoides revelatus n. sp." = Caliroa revelata Cockerell 1909 wood wasp
Coll. Rusk
 Hymenoptera - Braconidae
Alysia ruskii n. sp.3
Alysia ruskii n. sp.3 Cockerell 1913 wasp
UCM 4903
 Hymenoptera - Vespidae
Odynerus terryi n. sp. Cockerell 1909 potter wasp
Coll. Duce
 Hymenoptera - Megachilidae
Megachile praedicta Cockerell 1908 mason bee
 Hymenoptera -
"Melitta willardi" = Andrenopteryx willardi1
"Melitta willardi" = Andrenopteryx willardi1 Cockerell 1909 bee
UCM 18737
 Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Chrysobothris gahani n. sp.2 Cockerell 1911 jewel beetle
UCM-4510
 Diptera - Asilidae
? Microstylum destructum n. sp. Cockerell 1909 robber fly
Coll. Rusk
Nicocles miocenicus n. sp. Cockerell 1909 robber fly
Coll. Duce
 Diptera - Syrphidae
Syrphus aphidopsidis n. sp. Cockerell 1909 hover fly
Coll. Rusk