YPM E-201, Elkhorn road (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Park County, Colorado (39.1° N, 105.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 98.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Antero Formation, Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)

• Formation around 300 ka younger than Florissant.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by C. Durden; reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: C. J. Durden. 1966. Oligocene lake deposits in central Colorado and a new fossil insect locality. Journal of Paleontology 40:215-219 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 149289: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 31.07.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Araneae -
Araneae indet. Clerck 1757 spider
Insecta
 Dicondylia -
Hymenoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 winged insect
 Hymenoptera -
Symphyta indet. Gerstaecker 1867 winged insect
Apoidea indet. Latreille 1802 apoid wasp
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Formicidae indet. Latreille 1802 ant
 Hymenoptera - Chalcididae
? Chalcididae indet. Leach 1815 chalcid wasp
 Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae
Ichneumonidae indet. Latreille 1802 ichneumon wasp
 Dicondylia -
Coleoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Staphylinidae indet. Latreille 1802 rove beetle
 Neuroptera - Chrysopidae
Tribochrysa firmata Scudder 1890 green lacewing
 Dicondylia -
? Mecoptera indet. Packard 1886 scorpionfly
 Hemiptera -
Heteroptera indet. Latreille 1810 true bug
 Hemiptera - Corixidae
Corixa cf. vanduzeei Scudder 1890 water boatman
 Hemiptera -
Homoptera indet. Leach 1815 true bug
 Dicondylia -
"Psocoptera indet." = Psocodea, Ephemerida indet.
"Psocoptera indet." = Psocodea Hennig 1966 booklice
 Diptera -
Diptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 fly
 Diptera - Tipulidae
Tipulidae indet. Latreille 1802 crane fly
 Diptera - Syrphidae
Syrphidae indet. Latreille 1802 hover fly