Where: Colorado (40.4° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 90.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coalmont Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by N.E. Hinds in 1911; reposited in the UCM
Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1918. New species of North American fossil beetles, cockroaches, and tsetse flies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 54:301-311 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140163: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
? Carabites arapahoensis n. sp.
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