McAbee (Royal Tyrrell Museum Collection) (Eocene of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.8° N, 121.1° W: paleocoordinates 55.5° N, 104.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kamloops Group, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, brown mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: repository: Royal Tyrrell Museum

Primary reference: S. B. Archibald. 2005. New Dinopanorpidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (British Columbia, Canada and Washington State, USA). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42:119-136 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144345: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 04.05.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Mecoptera - Eorpidae
Eorpa ypsipeda Archibald et al. 2013 scorpionfly
TMP 83 39 1133
 Mecoptera - Dinopanorpidae
Dinokanaga hillsi n. gen. n. sp.
Dinokanaga hillsi n. gen. n. sp. Archibald 2005 scorpionfly
RTM TMP 83 39.1132(collected Len Hill 1984)