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 1998; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: P. Vršanský, L. Vidlička, F. and F. Marsh. 2012. Derived, still living cockroach genus Cariblattoides (Blattida: Blattellidae) from the Eocene sediments of Green River in Colorado, USA. Insect Science 19:143-152 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138808: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Cariblattoides labandeirai n. sp.
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