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Acanthomyites aldrichi

Insecta - Diptera

Taxonomy
Acanthomyites aldrichi was named by Cockerell (1921). Its type specimen is USNM 66925, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is USGS 17-3; Smith's Ranch, in the vicinity of Cathedral Bluffs, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Acanthomyites.