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 Frederick Sanborn in 1981
Primary reference: J. Y. Miller and F. M. Brown. 1989. A new Oligocene fossil butterfly, Vanessa amerindica (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), from the Florissant Formation, Colorado. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 126:1-9 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122979: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Vanessa amerindica Miller and Brown 1989 brush-footed butterfly |