Falkland: Ypresian, Canada
collected 2001-

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Rosales - Ulmaceae
Ulmus chuchuanus Berry 1926
Denk and Dillhoff 2005
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Trigonalidae
Trigonalidae indet. (Cresson 1887)
Archibald et al. 2018 1 specimen
SBA-2993
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Myrmeciites sp. Archibald et al. 2006
1 specimen
2003.2.9 CDM 033 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Neuroptera - Nymphidae
Epinesydrion falklandensis n. gen., n. sp. Archibald and Makarkin 2020
Archibald and Makarkin 2020 1 specimen
GSC 141064 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Mecoptera - Eorpidae
Archibald et al. 2013 1 specimen
RBCM-EH2012.004.0001.001
Insecta - Mecoptera - Dinopanorpidae
Dinokanaga dowsonae Archibald 2005
Archibald 2005 1 specimen
2003.2.5 CDM 029 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 50.5° North, 119.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:55.1° North, 102.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Ypresian
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:50.61 ± 0.16 Ma (U/Pb)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kamloops
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination,brown lithified mudstone
Environment:lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Collection dates:2001-
Collection method comments: Repository: Royal British Columbia Museum
Metadata
Database number:119946
Authorizer:M. Clapham, K. Volkman Enterer:J. Karr, K. Volkman, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2011-11-05 16:58:59 Last modified:2020-05-22 23:44:35
Access level:the public Released:2011-11-05 16:58:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

38422. S. B. Archibald, S. P. Cover, and C. S. Moreau. 2006. Bulldog Ants of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands and History of the Subfamily (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99(3):487-523 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]

Secondary references:

46655 S. B. Archibald. 2005. New Dinopanorpidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (British Columbia, Canada and Washington State, USA). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42:119-136 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]
72487 S. B. Archibald and V. N. Makarkin. 2020. A new genus and species of split-footed lacewings (Neuroptera) from the early Eocene of western Canada and revision of the subfamily affinities of Mesozoic Nymphidae. The Canadian Entomologist 152:269-287 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47557 S. B. Archibald, R. W. Mathewes, and D. R. Greenwood. 2013. The Eocene apex of panorpoid scorpionfly family diversity. Journal of Paleontology 87:677-695 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
65004 S. B. Archibald, A. P. Rasnitsyn, D. J. Brothers and R. W. Mathewes. 2018. Modernisation of the Hymenoptera: ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies of the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of western North America. The Canadian Entomologist 150:250-257 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
82997 T. Denk and R. Dillhoff. 2005. Ulmus leaves and fruits from the Early-Middle Eocene of northwestern North America: systematics and implications for character evolution within Ulmaceae. Canadian Journal of Botany 83(12):1663-1681 [K. Volkman/K. Volkman]