Florissant, Station 17B (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Teller County, Colorado (38.9° N, 105.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 97.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Florissant Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, diatomaceous, tuffaceous shale

• "shales"

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by W. P. Cockerell; reposited in the UCM

Primary reference: M. T. James. 1937. A preliminary review of certain families of Diptera from the Florissant Miocene Beds. Journal of Paleontology 11(3):241-247 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106383: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 13.03.2011, edited by Amy Delelli

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Stratiomyidae
Beris miocenica n. sp.
Beris miocenica n. sp. James 1937 soldier fly
W. P. Cockerell
 Coleoptera - Brentidae
Toxorhynchus minusculus
Toxorhynchus minusculus Scudder 1893 weevil
 Coleoptera - Attelabidae
Docirhynchus terebrans
Docirhynchus terebrans Scudder 1893 tooth-nosed snout weevil