Disbrow Creek, Middle Fork Flathead River (Kishenehn) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Montana (48.4° N, 113.7° W: paleocoordinates 51.9° N, 100.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coal Creek Member (Kishenehn Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Middle sequence of the Coal Creek member of the Kishenehn Formation, which has been estimated to be 46.2 +/- 0.4 myo (Lutetian) by 40Ar/39Ar analysis and 43.5 +/- 4.9 myo by fission-track analysis

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, carbonaceous shale

• Paper/oil shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Dale Greenwalt; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: R. E. Harbach and D. Greenwalt. 2012. Two Eocene species of Culiseta (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Kishenehn Formation in Montana. Zootaxa 3530:25-34 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135665: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.11.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata - Eolestidae
Eolestes ramosus n. sp.2 Greenwalt and Bechly 2014 damselfly
USNM 559047
 Odonata -
Lutetialestes uniformis n. gen. n. sp.2
Lutetialestes uniformis n. gen. n. sp.2 Greenwalt and Bechly 2014 damselfly
USNM 559048
 Diptera - Dixidae
Dixella curvistyla n. sp.5 Greenwalt and Moulton 2016 meniscus midge
USNM 546860
 Diptera - Culicidae
Culiseta kishenehn Harbach and Greenwalt 2012 mosquito
USNM 546534
 Diptera - Bolitophilidae
Bolitophila warreni n. sp.4 Greenwalt and Blagoderov 2019 fungus gnat
USNM 595138
 Diptera - Psychodidae
Bruchomyiinae indet.3 Alexander 1920 moth fly
USNM 619952
 Diptera - Canthyloscelidae
Synneuron eomontana n. sp.1 Amorim and Greenwalt 2020 fly
USNM 722159