Roan Mountain, station 5 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Colorado (39.5° N, 108.4° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 95.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Green River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by John Byram

Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1925. Fossil insects in the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 64(13):1-15 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122747: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Cicadellidae
Thamnotettix eocenicus Cockerell 1921 leafhopper
 Diptera - Cylindrotomidae
Cyttaromyia reclusa n. sp. Cockerell 1925 long bodied crane fly
USNM 69178