Where: Colorado (40.1° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 94.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Green River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• "Lower section of the Upper Green River"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, diatomaceous shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Earl Douglass; reposited in the CM
Primary reference: F. M. Carpenter. 1928. A scorpion-fly from the Green River Eocene. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 18:241-248 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 163519: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.11.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Palaeobittacus eocenicus n. gen. n. sp.
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