Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.8° N, 121.1° W: paleocoordinates 55.5° N, 104.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kamloops Group, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, brown mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Simon Fraser University, transferred to Beaty Biodiversity Museum, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (BBM)

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192140: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.03.2018

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