White River Canyon (Kay collection) (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Utah (40.0° N, 109.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 95.6° W)
When: Green River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; diatomaceous shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Kay
Primary reference: F. M. Carpenter. 1930. The Fossil Ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 70:1-66 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138649: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.01.2013
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Insecta | |
"Eoformica pingue" = Eoformica pinguis
"Eoformica pingue" = Eoformica pinguis Scudder 1877 ant |