Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Synonym: Tipula decrepita Scudder 1877

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 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 primitiva, Dicranomyia primoriana, Dicranomyia rhodolitha, Dicranomyia rohweri, Dicranomyia saxetana, Dicranomyia sergio, Dicranomyia speciosa, Dicranomyia stagnorum, Dicranomyia stigmosa, Dicranomyia thybotica

Type specimens:

• Dicranomyia rostrata: Its type locality is Fossil Cañon, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Utah
• Tipula decrepita: Its type locality is Fossil Cañon, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Utah.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Fossil Cañon

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.