Florissant, south end of Fossil Stump Hill (station ?) (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, T. D. A. Cockerell, S. A. Rohwer; reposited in the UCM

Primary reference: C. T. Brues. 1906. Fossil Parasitic and Phytophagous Hymenoptera from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 22:491-498 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122976: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.01.2012, edited by Jered Karr

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Tenthredinidae
Eriocampa synthetica n. sp.
Eriocampa synthetica n. sp. Cockerell 1911 wood wasp
UCM-8638; Cockerell, 1911
 Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae
Pimpla appendigera n. sp.
Pimpla appendigera n. sp. Brues 1906 ichneumon wasp
 Hymenoptera - Bethylidae
Bethylidae indet.
Bethylidae indet. Forster 1856 flat wasp
 Hemiptera - Cicadidae
"Cicada grandiosa" = Hadoa grandiosa
"Cicada grandiosa" = Hadoa grandiosa Scudder 1892 cicada
UCM-8603