Stewart Valley (Scudder collection) (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Nevada (38.6° N, 117.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 114.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)

• Late Barstovian, ca. 14-14.5 Ma

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, gray mudstone

• Basin and Range province

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Harvey I. Scudder in 1970-1980; reposited in the CAS

• Collected in 1970s and 1980s

Primary reference: O. E. Heie. 2006. Fossil aphids (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha) from Canadian Cretaceous amber and from the Miocene of Nevada. Insect Systematics & Evolution 37:91-104 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123213: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Hemiptera - Aphididae
Eriosomaphis jesperi n. gen. n. sp., Eriosomaphis occidentalis n. sp., Eriosaphis leei n. gen. n. sp., Nevaphis nevadensis n. gen. n. sp., Similidrepan pulawskii n. gen. n. sp., Lachnarius miocaenicus n. gen. n. sp., Palaeogreenidea rittae n. gen. n. sp., Americaphis longipes n. gen. n. sp.
Eriosomaphis jesperi n. gen. n. sp. Heie 2006 aphid
674
Eriosomaphis occidentalis n. sp. Heie 2006 aphid
479
Eriosaphis leei n. gen. n. sp. Heie 2006 aphid
2, 55 (2 specimens)
Nevaphis nevadensis n. gen. n. sp. Heie 2006 aphid
247A
Similidrepan pulawskii n. gen. n. sp. Heie 2006 aphid
355, 367
Lachnarius miocaenicus n. gen. n. sp. Heie 2006 aphid
451, 525
Palaeogreenidea rittae n. gen. n. sp. Heie 2006 aphid
353, 480, 306, ?523
Americaphis longipes n. gen. n. sp. Heie 2006 aphid
293