PBDB Collection

McAbee (RBCM 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 British Columbia Museum, Victoria

Primary reference: S. B. Archibald. 2010. Revision of the scorpionfly family Holcorpidae (Mecoptera), with description of a new species from Early Eocene McAbee, British Columbia, Canada. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 46:173-182 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147816: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2013, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

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Aves
Neornithes -	? Gaviiformes indet.⁷ ? Gaviiformes indet.⁷ loon
Insecta
Odonata - Dysagrionidae	Okanopteryx sp.², Okanopteryx macabeensis², Okanopteryx fraseri², Okanagrion sp.², Okanagrion lochmum n. sp.², Okanagrion angustum n. sp.², Okanagrion beardi², Okanagrion hobani² Okanopteryx sp.² Archibald and Cannings 2021 damselfly RBCM P1553 Okanopteryx macabeensis² Archibald and Cannings 2021 damselfly RBCM 3087 Okanopteryx fraseri² Archibald and Cannings 2021 damselfly RBCM P1551, P1552 Okanagrion sp.² Archibald and Cannings 2021 damselfly RBCM P1550 Okanagrion lochmum n. sp.² Archibald and Cannings 2021 damselfly RBCM 11799.001 Okanagrion angustum n. sp.² Archibald and Cannings 2021 damselfly RBCM.EH2017.050.11.2491 Okanagrion beardi² Archibald and Cannings 2021 damselfly RBCM P1546 Okanagrion hobani² Archibald and Cannings 2021 damselfly RBCM P1547, P1548, P1549
Odonata - Aeshnidae	Ypshna latipennata¹ Ypshna latipennata¹ Archibald and Cannings 2019 darner dragonfly RBCM-P558
Hymenoptera - Cimbicidae	Leptostigma longiclava n. sp.⁵, Leptostigma brevilatum⁵ Leptostigma longiclava n. sp.⁵ Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2023 cimbicid sawfly RBCM.EH2017.050.4085.0001 Leptostigma brevilatum⁵ Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2023 cimbicid sawfly RBCM.EH2017.050.4628
Hymenoptera - Siricidae	Ypresiosirex orthosemos n. gen. n. sp.⁴ Ypresiosirex orthosemos n. gen. n. sp.⁴ Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2015 horntail RBCM.EH2015.004. 0001.001
Hymenoptera -	Chalcidoidea indet.⁶ Chalcidoidea indet.⁶ Leach 1815 chalcid wasp RBCM.EH.2004.001.1972
Mecoptera - Holcorpidae	Holcorpa dillhoffi n. sp. Holcorpa dillhoffi n. sp. Archibald 2010 scorpionfly RBCM.EH.2008.018.0001
Raphidioptera - Raphidiidae	Megaraphidia antiquissima n. sp.³ Megaraphidia antiquissima n. sp.³ Archibald and Makarkin 2021 snakefly RBCM P1555

¹Archibald and Cannings 2019; ²Archibald et al. 2021; ³Archibald and Makarkin 2021; ⁴Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2016; ⁵Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2023; ⁶Archibald et al. 2018; ⁷Mayr et al. 2019