Coffee bluff amber, Hardin County: Campanian, Tennessee
collected by Bruce Wade
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Trichoptera
- Philopotamidae
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Dolophilus praemissus n. sp.
Cockerell 1916
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Wormaldia praemissa | ||||||||||
| USNM 62001 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Tennessee |
| Coordinates: | 35.3° North, 88.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.8° North, 58.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Selma | Formation: | Coffee Sand |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | amber |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,soft parts,original chitin,amber |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | Bruce Wade |
Metadata
| Database number: | 124694 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-02-21 13:41:20 | Last modified: | 2022-10-07 16:22:09 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-02-21 13:41:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 40318. | T. D. A. Cockerell. 1916. Some American fossil insects. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 51:89-106 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |