McAbee (CDM 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: Courtenay and District Museum, Courtenay, British Columbia

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 144347: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 04.05.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Paratypes of E. ypsipeda have same specimen numbers as Dinokanaga specimens, but are not the same fossils
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Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Avitomyrmex systenus n. sp.1, Avitomyrmex elongatus n. gen. n. sp.1
Avitomyrmex systenus n. sp.1 Archibald et al. 2006 bulldog ant
2003.2.11 CDM 035
Avitomyrmex elongatus n. gen. n. sp.1 Archibald et al. 2006 bulldog ant
2003.2.8CDM032
 Mecoptera - Dinopanorpidae
Dinokanaga hillsi, Dinokanaga dowsonae
Dinokanaga hillsi Archibald 2005 scorpionfly
2003.2.7 CDM 031, 2003.2.2 CDM 026
Dinokanaga dowsonae Archibald 2005 scorpionfly
2003.2.3 CDM 027, 2003.2.4 CDM 028
 Mecoptera - Eorpidae
Eorpa ypsipeda n. gen. n. sp.2
Eorpa ypsipeda n. gen. n. sp.2 Archibald et al. 2013 scorpionfly
2003.2.6-CDM-030, 2.2-CDM-026, 2.4-CDM-028, 2.8-CDM-032, 2.9-CDM-033, 2.5-CDM-029, 2.3-CDM-027, 2.7-CDM-031
1Archibald et al. 2006; 2Archibald et al. 2013