Florissant, Station 13a (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Teller County, Colorado (38.9° N, 105.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 97.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Florissant Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, diatomaceous, tuffaceous shale

• "shales"

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by W. P. Cockerell, T. D. A. Cockerell, S. A. Rohwer; reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: H. F. Wickham. 1910. New fossil Coleoptera from Florissant, with notes on some already described. American Journal of Science, Series 4 29:47-51 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151544: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.10.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Platynus sp.
Platynus sp. Bonelli 1810 ground beetle