Also known as nine mile creek

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.4° N, 120.6° W: paleocoordinates 54.1° N, 103.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vermilion Bluffs Member (Allenby Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Whipsaw Creek, British Columbia: an exposure of the Vermillion Bluffs Shale Unit of the Allenby Formation (Princeton Group) on Highway 3 about 10 km south of the town of Princeton. The Vermillion Bluffs Shale Unit exposure at the Hospital Hill locality is dated Early Eocene (52.08 ± 0.12 Ma by preliminary U–Pb zircon ages by Mortensen and Archibald, work in progress), indicating an Early Eocene age for Whipsaw Creek, although an early Middle Eocene age cannot be ruled out for this exposure, pending further results.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; brown mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Mark Wilson in 1975

Collection methods: quarrying,

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 144348: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 04.05.2013, edited by Karl Volkman

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