Where: Washington (47.6° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 48.4° N, 114.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Latah Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• Latah Formation overlies the Grande Ronde basalts (16-15.5 Ma; Barry et al., 2013), although younger parts of the Grande Ronde are absent at some localiies (Nash & Perkins, 2012). It underlies the Saddle Mountain basalts (c. 15 Ma and younger; Barry et al., 2013). Ash beds within the Latah Formation at White Bird, Idaho, are dated to 15.77 Ma (Mascall Tuff), 15.66 Ma (Bully Creek tuff), and an interpolated age of 14.3 Ma (Nash & Perkins, 2012).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Kenneth Buxton in 1937; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: T. E. Snyder. 1949. A new Miocene Ulmeriella (fossil Isoptera, Hodotermitidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 51(4):164-165 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 146100: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 15.06.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Ulmeriella latahensis n. sp.
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