Eocene Green River Multiple Insects
Multiple Insects
Green River Formation
Parachute Creek Member
Middle Eocene
Uintah County, Utah
Green River Formation
Parachute Creek Member
Middle Eocene
Uintah County, Utah
This is a very interesting assemblage of insects arrange in a linear strand. They include: Chilosia sp.(fly), Pronemobius sp.(cricket), Tipula sp.(crane fly), Dicranomyia sp.(crane fly), Sakenia sp.(gnat), and Limetopum sp.(ant). There are also several unidentified insects. Multiple insects on a single specimen are not unusual but this variety of insects is rare on a single plate. This type of orientation and variety of insects has been interpreted by some to represent an accumulation of insects that may have been trapped in a spider web. All identifications are based on Scudder (Tertiary Insects of North America) 1890.