Where: Colorado (39.5° N, 108.5° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 95.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Green River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, diatomaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Henderson, Byram in 1923; reposited in the UCM
Primary reference: M. T. James. 1932. A new Eocene syrphid from Colorado (Diptera). The Canadian Entomologist 64:264 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 152078: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.11.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
? Syrphus hendersoni n. sp.
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