Green River, bluffs behind town (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (41.5° N, 109.5° W: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 95.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Green River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; diatomite and shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1893. Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of the United States. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 21:1-206 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152136: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.11.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Attelabidae
Teretrum quiescitum n. sp. Scudder 1893 tooth-nosed snout weevil
USGS 740
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Phyllobius avus Scudder 1893 snout beetle
USGS 736, 980
Calandrites cineratius Scudder 1893 snout beetle
USGS 756
Calandrites defessus Scudder 1893 snout beetle
USGS 871
Anthonomus soporus Scudder 1890 snout beetle
USGS 718(739), 728, 737, 743
Anthonomus revictus n. sp. Scudder 1893 snout beetle
USGS 721(730), 723
Otiorhynchites tysoni Scudder 1893 snout beetle
USGS 791
Pachylobius compressus Scudder 1893 snout beetle
USGS 998
Epicaerus exanimis Scudder 1876 snout beetle
USGS 715, 716, 720, 722, 734, 738, 747, 749, 986, 987, 988, 990, 994, 995, 997
"Phyxelis dilapsus n. sp." = Epicaerus dilapsus Scudder 1893 snout beetle
USGS 984
Epicaerus saxatilis Scudder 1876 snout beetle
USGS 717
"Scythropus subterraneus" = Epicaerus subterraneus Scudder 1893 snout beetle
USGS 724, 744, 746, 981, 993
"Sitona fodinarum" = Epicaerus fodinarum Scudder 1893 snout beetle
USGS 712, 719
Sitona paginarum Scudder 1893 snout beetle
USGS 726
? Lepyrus evictus n. sp. Scudder 1893 snout beetle
USGS 733(862)
Limalophus contractus n. sp. Scudder 1893 snout beetle
USGS 711, 714, 732, 735, 742(991), 976
Limalophus compositus Scudder 1893 snout beetle
USGS 750(754), 977