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

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

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

Primary reference: H. F. Wickham. 1912. On some fossil Rhynchophorus Coleoptera from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 31(4):41-55 [M. Clapham/A. Delelli] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127264: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Amy Delelli on 05.05.2012

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