Where: Teller County, Colorado (38.9° N, 105.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 97.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Florissant Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, diatomaceous, tuffaceous shale
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by G. F. Sternberg
• Repository: The specimen was one of several fossils of insects in a case at the University of Illinois. The type will be placed in the Francis Huntington Snow Museum, Department of Entomology, University of Kansas.
Primary reference: D. R. Lauck. 1960. A new species of Notonecta from the Florissant (Hemiptera, Notonectidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 33:69-71 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 169462: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.05.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Notonecta binuda n. sp.
Notonecta binuda n. sp. Lauck 1960 true bug |