†Calyptapis florissantensis Cockerell 1906 (bee)
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Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1906. Fossil Hymenoptera from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College 50(2):33-58
Belongs to Calyptapis according to M. S. Engel 2021
See also Cockerell 1906, Cockerell 1908, Cockerell 1908, Dehon et al. 2019 and Zeuner and Manning 1976
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Mus. Comp. Zool. No. 2008, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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