Denson site, locality 41223 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Colorado (39.5° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 97.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Parachute Creek Member (Green River Formation), Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified lime mudstone

• Laramide-style block faulting

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by D. Kohls in 1997; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. M. Dlussky and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 2002. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Formation Green River and some other middle Eocene deposits of North America. Russian Entomological Journal 11:411-436 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138688: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.01.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Orthoptera - Gryllidae
Eogryllus unicolor
Eogryllus unicolor Gorochov 2012 field cricket
USNM Kohls 51117-AB
 Orthoptera - Tetrigidae
Eotetrix unicornis
Eotetrix unicornis Gorochov 2012 pygmy grasshopper
USNM Kohls 51196
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Ponerites hypoponeroides n. sp.
Ponerites hypoponeroides n. sp. Dlussky and Rasnitsyn 2002 ant
USNM 495991A/990