Also known as Golden Promise Mine

Where: Washington (48.7° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 54.4° N, 101.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tom Thumb Member (Klondike Mountain Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• "late Ypresian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: Specimens at Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle, Washington (UWBM)

Primary reference: G. M. Dlussky and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1999. Two new species of aculeate hymenopterans (Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Middle Eocene of the United States. Paleontological Journal 33:546-549 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124086: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.02.2012

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