White River, northern side (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Utah (40.0° N, 109.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 95.5° W)
When: Green River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; diatomaceous 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 152137: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.11.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Anthonomus soporus, Phyllobius avus, "Aulobaris circumscripta" = Lithogeraeus circumscripta, "Aulobaris comminuta n. sp." = Lithogeraeus comminuta, Phyllobius carcerarius, ? Ophryastes sp., "Scythropus subterraneus" = Epicaerus subterraneus, Epicaerus effossus, Epicaerus exanimis, "Phyxelis evigoratus" = Epicaerus evigoratus, "Phyxelis eradicatus" = Epicaerus eradicatus, "? Artipus receptus n. sp." = Limalophus receptus, Limalophus compositus, Procas vinculatus, "Pachylobius deleticius n. sp." = Archaeoheilus deleticius
"Aulobaris comminuta n. sp." = Lithogeraeus comminuta Scudder 1893 snout beetle USGS 702, 703 (highest elevation at Colorado border), 397 (from fallen blocks)
"Scythropus subterraneus" = Epicaerus subterraneus Scudder 1893 snout beetle USGS 705, 706, 889, 907, 908, 916, 924
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