Head of Bear Gulch (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Mesa County, Colorado (39.6° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 94.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Green River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by John Byram in 1922; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1922. An ancient wasp. Nature 110:313 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122751: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.01.2012
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Taxonomic list
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"Hoplisus archoryctes n. sp." = Gorytes archoryctes
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