Florissant (CAS Collection) (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 R.L. Usinger in 1937; reposited in the CAS

Primary reference: R. L. Usinger. 1940. Fossil Lygaeidae (Hemiptera) from Florissant. Journal of Paleontology 14:79-80 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151866: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.10.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Hemiptera - Lygaeidae
Procymus cockerelli n. gen. n. sp.
Procymus cockerelli n. gen. n. sp. Usinger 1940 milkweed bug
CAS 815 (counterpart in MCZ)