Rio Blanco County (ISEZh collection) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Rio Blanco County, Colorado (39.7° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 97.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Parachute Creek Member (Green River Formation), Uintan (46.2 - 40.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals (ISEZh)

Primary reference: A. A. Legalov. 2018. New weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) from the Eocene of the Green River, United States: part 1. Paleontological Journal 52:294-302 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194197: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Pseudophaops perditus Scudder 1876 snout beetle
ISEZh 2015/6
Eudiagogus vossi n. sp. Legalov 2018 snout beetle
ISEZh 2015/1
Archaeoheilus scudderi n. sp. Legalov 2018 snout beetle
ISEZh 2014/3