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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Trox oustaleti n. sp.
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Galerucella picea n. sp.
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Tenebrio primigenius n. sp.
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Cercopis selwyni n. sp.
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Penthetria whipsawensis n. sp.
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