Where: Colorado (39.5° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 94.5° 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 lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by D. Kohls; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: P. Vršanský, R. Oruzinsky, P. Barna, L. Vidlička, and C. C. Labandeira. 2014. Native Ectobius (Blattaria: Ectobiidae) from the early Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado and its reintroduction to North America 49 million years later. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 107:28-36 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 154000: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.01.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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