Where: Alberta, Canada (55.7° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 55.7° N, 117.6° W)

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "Age of the unit containing Vitavitus fossils is approximately 27,400 years BP (Matthews, pers. comm.)"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; unlithified lithology not reported

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by J.V. Matthews

Primary reference: D. G. Kissinger. 1973. A new weevil genus from America north of the Arctic circle and notes of fossils from Pliocene and Pleistocene sediments (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 27:193-200 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160071: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.08.2014

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