Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1877. The First Discovered Traces of Fossil Insects in the American Tertiaries. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 3:741-762
Belongs to Dicranomyia according to S. H. Scudder 1894
See also Scudder 1877, Scudder 1878 and Scudder 1890
Sister taxa: Dicranomyia (Caenolimonia), Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia), Dicranomyia (Melanolimonia), Dicranomyia (Sivalimnobia), Dicranomyia antennifera, Dicranomyia baltica, Dicranomyia bellissima, Dicranomyia faecarius, Dicranomyia fontainei, Dicranomyia fragilis, Dicranomyia inferna, Dicranomyia loewi, Dicranomyia longipes, Dicranomyia primoriana, Dicranomyia rhodolitha, Dicranomyia rohweri, Dicranomyia rostrata, Dicranomyia saxetana, Dicranomyia sergio, Dicranomyia speciosa, Dicranomyia stagnorum, Dicranomyia stigmosa, Dicranomyia thybotica
Type specimen: Its type locality is Fossil Cañon, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Utah
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (3: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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