Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.7° N, 121.6° W: paleocoordinates 55.5° N, 104.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Overlying rhyolites dated at 51.2 +/- 1.4 Ma, and palynology suggests that the deposit is no older than Eocene.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber
Collection methods: Repository: Kelowna Centennial Museum (NH) and Royal British Columbia Museum (RBCM), Victoria, British Columbia
Primary reference: S. B. Archibald and V. N. Makarkin. 2004. New genus of minute Berothidae (Neuroptera) from Early Eocene amber of British Columbia. The Canadian Entomologist 136:61-76 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123795: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.01.2012, edited by Karl Volkman
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Prionocerites tattriei n. gen. n. sp.2
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Microberotha macculloughi n. gen. n. sp.
Microberotha macculloughi n. gen. n. sp. Archibald and Makarkin 2004 beaded lacewing KM NH.998.015.002
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