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
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 | |
"Eriocampoides revelatus n. sp." = Caliroa revelata
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Alysia ruskii n. sp.3
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Odynerus terryi n. sp.
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Megachile praedicta Cockerell 1908 mason bee | |
"Melitta willardi" = Andrenopteryx willardi1
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Chrysobothris gahani n. sp.2
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? Microstylum destructum n. sp., Nicocles miocenicus n. sp.
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Syrphus aphidopsidis n. sp.
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