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
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Teretrum quiescitum n. sp.
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Phyllobius avus, Calandrites cineratius, Calandrites defessus, Anthonomus soporus, Anthonomus revictus n. sp., Otiorhynchites tysoni, Pachylobius compressus, Epicaerus exanimis, "Phyxelis dilapsus n. sp." = Epicaerus dilapsus, Epicaerus saxatilis, "Scythropus subterraneus" = Epicaerus subterraneus, "Sitona fodinarum" = Epicaerus fodinarum, Sitona paginarum, ? Lepyrus evictus n. sp., Limalophus contractus n. sp., Limalophus compositus
Epicaerus exanimis Scudder 1876 snout beetle USGS 715, 716, 720, 722, 734, 738, 747, 749, 986, 987, 988, 990, 994, 995, 997
"Scythropus subterraneus" = Epicaerus subterraneus Scudder 1893 snout beetle USGS 724, 744, 746, 981, 993
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