Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.4° N, 120.6° W: paleocoordinates 54.1° N, 103.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vermilion Bluffs Member (Allenby Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• The "Hospital Hill" exposure of the Vermilion Bluffs Shale in Princeton is estimated to be 52.08 +/- 0.12 million years old (Archibald, 2005).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; brown mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by G.M. Dawson in 1877; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1879. Appendix A. The fossil insects collected in 1877, by Mr. G.M. Dawson, in the interior of British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Report of Progress for 1877-1878 175-185 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120624: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 18.11.2011

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