G-1, Fontenelle Reservoir (BMNH collection) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Lincoln County, Wyoming (42.1° N, 110.1° W: paleocoordinates 46.1° N, 96.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Laney Member (Green River Formation), Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, gray shale

• "Lake Uinta"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: L. Grande. 1984. Paleontology of the Green River Formation, with a review of the fish fauna. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Wyoming 63:1-333 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187757: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.08.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Tipulidae
Tipulidae indet. Latreille 1802 crane fly
BMNH In.64614
 Diptera - Culicidae
Culicidae indet. Meigen 1818 mosquito
BMNH In.64615, 64616 (mass mortality layers)