Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.4° N, 120.5° W: paleocoordinates 54.1° N, 103.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vermilion Bluffs Member (Allenby Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• The "Hospital Hill" exposure of the Vermilion Bluffs Shale in Princeton is estimated to be 52.08 +/- 0.12 million years old (Archibald, 2005).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float),

• Repository: Princeton and District Museum and Archives, Princeton, British Columbia, Canada

Primary reference: S. B. Archibald, A. P. Rasnitsyn, D. J. Brothers and R. W. Mathewes. 2018. Modernisation of the Hymenoptera: ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies of the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of western North America. The Canadian Entomologist 150:250-257 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192142: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.03.2018

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