Republic (UWBM collection) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Washington (48.7° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 54.4° N, 101.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tom Thumb Member (Klondike Mountain Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• "late Ypresian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Basin developed in Republic graben

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: Repository: University of Washington Burke Museum

Primary reference: S. B. Archibald, R. W. Mathewes, and D. R. Greenwood. 2013. The Eocene apex of panorpoid scorpionfly family diversity. Journal of Paleontology 87:677-695 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147822: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2013, edited by Karl Volkman

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Angiospermae
 Trochodendrales - Trochodendraceae
Trochodendron sp.5, Trochodendron nastae5, Zizyphoides sp.5, Nordenskioldia sp.5
Trochodendron sp.5 Siebold and Zuccarini 1838
fruits
Trochodendron nastae5 Pigg et al. 2001
leaves
Zizyphoides sp.5 Seward and Conway 1935
leaves
Nordenskioldia sp.5 Heer 1870
Infructescences
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Koelreuteria arnoldii6, Koelreuteria dilcheri6
Koelreuteria arnoldii6 golden rain tree
fruits
Koelreuteria dilcheri6 Wang et al. 2013 golden rain tree
fruits
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Ulmus okanaganensis2, Ulmus chuchuanus2
Ulmus okanaganensis2 Denk and Dillhoff 2005 elm
paratype UWBM 97780
Ulmus chuchuanus2 Berry 1926 elm
UWBM 54889, UWBM77352A, UWBM 77343, UWBM 57168, UWBM 97786, UWBM 71110, UWBM 96081, UWBM 77383, UWBM 56793A, UWBM 56793B
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Cruciptera simsonii4
Cruciptera simsonii4 Brown 1940
Insecta
 Mecoptera - Eorpidae
Eorpa ? ypsipeda
Eorpa ? ypsipeda Archibald et al. 2013 scorpionfly
UWBM 57198 (Ephemeroptera in Lewis, 1992 and Lewis and Wehr, 1993)
 Coleoptera - Brentidae
Ithyceroides klondikensis n. gen. n. sp.3
Ithyceroides klondikensis n. gen. n. sp.3 Legalov 2015 weevil
UWBM 72299A
 Hymenoptera - Cimbicidae
Cimbicidae indet.1
Cimbicidae indet.1 Kirby 1837 cimbicid sawfly
UWBM 54840
 Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae
Ichneumonidae indet.1
Ichneumonidae indet.1 Latreille 1802 ichneumon wasp
UWBM 77457
1Archibald et al. 2018; 2Denk and Dillhoff 2005; 3Legalov 2015; 4Manchester 1991; 5Pigg et al. 2001; 6Wang et al. 2013