Where: Colorado (39.5° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 94.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Green River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by D. Kohls in 1995; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. M. Dlussky and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 2002. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Formation Green River and some other middle Eocene deposits of North America. Russian Entomological Journal 11:411-436 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138673: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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? Scambus parachuti n. sp.2
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Gryllinae indet.1, Pronemobius sp.1, Pronemobius ? tertiarius1, Eogryllus unicolor1, ? Eneopterinae indet.1
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Pteromogoplistes sp.1, Pteromogoplistes grandis1, Pteromogoplistes ? smithii1, Eomogoplistes longipennis1
Pteromogoplistes ? smithii1 Scudder 1890 scaly cricket USNM Kohls 27145, 25703-AB, 26331, 25384, 26315
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