PBDB Collection

Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (CNC June 1974 collection): Middle Campanian, Canada
collected by J.F. McAlpine, Daze, Cooper 1974

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Insecta - Diptera - Cecidomyiidae

	Cretomiastor ferejunctus n. gen., n. sp. Gagné 1977	Gagné 1977	2 specimens
	CAS 1163b,c
Insecta - Diptera - Atelestidae

	Nemedromia campania n. gen., n. sp. Grimaldi and Cumming 1999	Grimaldi and Cumming 1999	1 specimen
	CAS 1091A

	Nemedromia telescopica n. sp. Grimaldi and Cumming 1999	Grimaldi and Cumming 1999	1 specimen
	CAS 920 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

	Protoculicoides depressus Boesel 1937	Borkent 1995	2 specimens
	CAS 1015, 1231
	= Protoculicoides ciliatus n. sp. Borkent 2012	Borkent 2012

	Atriculicoides globosus (Boesel 1937)	Borkent 1995	2 specimens
	CAS 947a, 1059

	Adelohelea n. gen. glabra Borkent 1995	Borkent 1995	1 specimen
	CAS 1089

	Heleageron arenatus n. gen., n. sp. Borkent 1995	Borkent 1995	4 specimens
	CAS 985, 1040a (2 specimens), 1040b

	Culicoides obuncus Borkent 1995	Borkent 1995	1 specimen
	CAS 1019

	Culicoides tyrrelli (Boesel 1937)	Borkent 1995	1 specimen
	CAS 944

	Culicoides filipalpis Remm 1976	Borkent 1995	3 specimens
	CAS 948, 986, 1015

	Culicoides canadensis (Boesel 1937)	Borkent 1995	2 specimens
	CAS 1027, 1154

	Palaeobrachypogon remmi n. sp. Borkent 1995	Borkent 1995	1 specimen
	CAS 947b

	Palaeobrachypogon vetus n. sp. Borkent 1995	Borkent 1995	1 specimen
	CAS 1198

	Leptoconops (Leptoconops) primaevus Borkent 1995	Borkent 1995	2 specimens
	CAS 929 (2 specimens)
Insecta - Neuroptera - Berothidae

	Chrysopidae indet. Schneider 1851	Engel and Grimaldi 2008	1 specimen
	CAS 1096 (egg and larva)
	= Berothidae indet. Handlirsch 1906	Pérez-de la Fuente et al. 2020
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Dryinidae

	Avodryinus canadensis n. gen., n. sp. Ponomarenko 1981		1 specimen
	CAS 1130 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

	Canapone dentata n. gen., n. sp. Dlussky 1999	Dlussky 1999	1 specimen
	CAS 1156 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Serphitidae

	Serphites paradoxus Brues 1937	McKellar and Engel 2011	1 specimen
	CAS 935

	Serphites bruesi McKellar and Engel 2011	McKellar and Engel 2011	2 specimens
	CAS 983,1137

	Jubaserphites ethani n. gen., n. sp. McKellar and Engel 2011	McKellar and Engel 2011	1 specimen
	CAS 968
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Liopteridae

	Goerania petiolata n. gen., n. sp. Liu and Engel 2007	Liu et al. 2007	1 specimen
	Number not given, but only other Cynipoid listed in Skidmore (1999) is CAS 1135 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Maimetshidae

	Ahstemiam cellula n. gen., n. sp. McKellar and Engel 2011	Perrichot et al. 2011	1 specimen
	CAS 1038
Insecta - Hemiptera

	Canaphis albertensis n. gen., n. sp. Heie 2006	Heie 2006	1 specimen
	CAS 1180
Insecta - Hemiptera - Mesozoicaphididae

	Mesozoicaphis canadensis Heie 1992	Heie 2006	4 specimens
	CAS 1146b, 1186 (3 specimens)
Insecta - Hemiptera - Palaeoaphididae

	Longiradius foottitti Heie 2006	Heie 2006	1 specimen
	CAS 976
Insecta - Hemiptera

	Aphidinius constrictus n. gen., n. sp. Heie 2006	Heie 2006	1 specimen
	CAS 1146
Collembola - Entomobryomorpha - Oncobryidae

	Oncobrya decepta n. gen., n. sp. Christiansen and Pike 2002	Christiansen and Pike 2002	1 specimen
	CAS 1094
Collembola - Entomobryomorpha - Isotomidae

	Protoisotoma sp. Christiansen and Pike 2002	Christiansen and Pike 2002	1 specimen
	CAS 1234
see common names

Geography

Country:	Canada	State/province:	Alberta
Coordinates:	49.8° North, 111.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	60.1° North, 66.7° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late Cretaceous
Stage:	Campanian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:	Middle Campanian
Age range of interval:	83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Geological group:	Belly River	Formation:	Foremost	Member:	Taber coal
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Foremost Formation is likely middle Campanian in age, see Fowler et al. 2017 supplementary data for more details on age constraints of the Foremost Formation.

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	amber
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body,original chitin,amber
Size of fossils:	mesofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Collectors:	J.F. McAlpine, Daze, Cooper	Collection dates:	June 1974
Collection method comments: Specimens sometime given CAS numbers, sometimes CNC numbers, but all are deposited in the Canadian National Collection.

Metadata

Also known as:	Canadian amber
Database number:	122384
Authorizer:	M. Clapham	Enterer:	M. Clapham, J. Karr
Modifier:	G. Varnham	Research group:	paleoentomology
Created:	2011-12-23 07:00:53	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2011-12-23 07:00:53
Creative Commons license:	CC0

Reference information

Primary reference:

34912.

A. G. Ponomarenko. 1981. New Dryinidae (Hymenoptera) from the late Cretaceous of the Taymyr and Canada. Paleontological Journal 15(1):115-120 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/J. Karr]

Secondary references:

39407		A. Borkent. 1995. Biting Midges in the Cretaceous Amber of North America (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) 1-237 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen]
45727		A. Borkent. 2012. Further biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Canadian Cretaceous amber. The Canadian Entomologist 144:758-766 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
39460		K. Christiansen and E. Pike. 2002. Cretaceous Collembola (Arthropoda, Hexapoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Canada. Cretaceous Research 23:165-188 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38952		G. M. Dlussky. 1999. New ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Canadian amber. Paleontological Journal 33(4):409-412 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
49331		M. S. Engel and D. A. Grimaldi. 2008. Diverse Neuropterida in Cretaceous amber, with particular reference to the paleofauna of Myanmar (Insecta). Nova Supplementa Entomologica 20:1-86 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
5823	ETE 1588	R. Gagné. 1977. Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) from Canadian amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 79:57-62 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]
5816	ETE 1580	D. A. Grimaldi and J. M. Cumming. 1999. Brachyceran Diptera in Cretaceous ambers and Mesozoic diversification of the Eremoneura. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 239:1-121 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]
39443		O. E. Heie. 2006. Fossil aphids (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha) from Canadian Cretaceous amber and from the Miocene of Nevada. Insect Systematics & Evolution 37:91-104 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
39379		Z. W. Liu, M. S. Engel, and D. A. Grimaldi. 2007. Phylogeny and geological history of the cynipoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea). American Museum Novitates 3583:1-48 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38956		R. C. McKellar and M. S. Engel. 2011. The serphitid wasps (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha: Serphitoidea) of Canadian Cretaceous amber. Systematic Entomology 36:192-208 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
69955		R. Pérez-de la Fuente, M. S. Engel, X. Delclòs and E. Peñalver. 2020. Straight-jawed lacewing larvae (Neuroptera) from Lower Cretaceous Spanish amber, with an account on the known amber diversity of neuropterid immatures. Cretaceous Research 106(104200) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
40362		V. Perrichot, J. Ortega-Blanco, R. C. McKellar, X. Delclòs, D. Azar, A. Nel, P. Tafforeau and M. S. Engel. 2011. New and revised maimetshid wasps from Cretaceous ambers (Hymenoptera, Maimetshidae). ZooKeys 130:421-453 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38988		R. E. Skidmore. 1999. Checklist of Canadian amber inclusions in the Canadian National Collection of insects. Research Branch Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Electronic Publication 1-244 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]