Florissant (Snow Museum, University of Kansas) (Eocene of the United States)

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

• "shales"

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
 Hemiptera - Notonectidae
Notonecta binuda n. sp. Lauck 1960 true bug