Foster Gulch, Eagle coal mine, Bear Creek: Thanetian, Montana
collected by Erling Dorf 1930

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Hemiptera - Cicadidae
Davispia bearcreekensis n. gen., n. sp. Cooper 1941
1 specimen
PU 24001 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana
Coordinates: 45.1° North, 109.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.9° North, 89.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Thanetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
Key time interval:Thanetian
Age range of interval:59.20000 - 56.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fort Union
Stratigraphy comments: Associated vertebrates and fossil plants indicate Late Paleocene age. Collection lies about 35 feet stratigraphically below coal No. 3.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Lithology description: Dark, somewhat metamorphosed shales
Environment:lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Erling Dorf Collection dates:1930
Collection method comments: Discovered in 1930 by Erling Dorf, while collecting fossil plants. Specimens at Princeton University.
Metadata
Database number:124225
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:A. Noshirvan, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-02-08 08:05:23 Last modified:2021-11-15 13:57:53
Access level:the public Released:2012-02-08 08:05:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
5055.ETE 767K. W. Cooper. 1941. Davispia bearcreekensis Cooper, a New Cicada from the Paleocene, with a Brief Review of the Fossil Cicadidae. American Journal of Science, Series 5 239:286-304 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]