Black Creek Road Locality (Horsefly River): Ypresian, Canada
collected by S. B. Archibald

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bacillariophyceae - Aulacoseirales - Aulacoseiraceae
Eoseira wilsonii Wolfe and Edlund 2005
Wolfe and Edlund 2005
Insecta - Mecoptera - Dinopanorpidae
Dinokanaga dowsonae n. sp. Archibald 2005
Archibald 2005 1 specimen
2003.2.6CDM030(B.A. 2001) (2 measurements)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Diapriidae
Diapriidae indet. (Haliday 1833)
Archibald et al. 2018 3 specimens
SBA-760, 5179, 5585
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Proctotrupidae
Proctotrupidae indet. (Latreille 1802)
Archibald et al. 2018 1 specimen
SBA-5868
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Formicidae indet. (Latreille 1802)
Archibald et al. 2018 2 specimens
SBA-5849, 5866
? Myrmeciites tabanifluviensis n. sp. Archibald et al. 2006
1 specimen
2003.2.10 CDM 034 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Braconidae
Braconidae indet. Nees ab Esenbeck 1811
Archibald et al. 2018 1 specimen
SBA-756
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae
Ichneumonidae indet. (Latreille 1802)
Archibald et al. 2018 1 specimen
SBA-5845
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Cephidae
Cephinae indet. Newman 1834
Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2016 2 specimens
RBCM.EH2015.005.0001.001, .002
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Tenthredinidae
Tenthredinidae indet. (Latreille 1802)
Archibald et al. 2018 4 specimens
SBA-5151, 5421, 5525, 5559
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 52.3° North, 121.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:57.0° North, 103.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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 - 47.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "unnamed group and formation; Eocene: Ypresian"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination "shale"
Lithology description: Varved shale, with alternating Dark sapropel laminae & Light tuff laminae
Environment:lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: It is proposed here that the varves were deposited in the deeper regons of a stratified, monomictic or meromictic lake in a warm temperate climate
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:S. B. Archibald
Metadata
Database number:119948
Authorizer:M. Clapham, K. Volkman Enterer:J. Karr, K. Volkman, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2011-11-05 17:21:41 Last modified:2018-03-12 23:15:46
Access level:the public Released:2011-11-05 17:21:41
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]
58323 S. B. Archibald and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 2016. New early Eocene Siricomorpha (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Pamphiliidae, Siricidae, Cephidae) from the Okanagan Highlands, western North America. The Canadian Entomologist 148:209-228 [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]
83414 A. P. Wolfe and M. B. Edlund. 2005. Taxonomy, phylogeny, and paleoecology of Eoseira wilsonii gen. et sp. nov., a Middle Eocene diatom (Bacillariophyceae: Aulacoseiraceae) from lake sediments at Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42(2):243-257 [K. Volkman/K. Volkman]