Where: Colorado (40.0° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 95.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
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 152141: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.11.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
"? Scythropus abacus n. sp." = Mitostylus abacus
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