Where: Colorado (39.5° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 97.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Parachute Creek Member (Green River Formation), Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by D. Kohls in 1997; 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 138688: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ponerites hypoponeroides n. sp.
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