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Eocene Green River Wasp IF-PCM-16-046

Eocene Green River Wasp IF-PCM-16-046

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Colemanus keeleyorum Fisher et al 2015
Green River Formation
Parachute Creek Member
Middle Eocene
Uinta County, Utah

This is a remarkable specimen of the recently described Braconid wasp.  This example has superb preservation, and the entire body is present.  The wings have excellent venation and are comparable to the type specimen.  The antenna and stinger are exceptional.  Also seen on the slab are two Dicranomyia primitiva and an exceptional Tipula sp. with eye pigmentation.  There is also a Mimosites coloradensis leaflet.

The upper part of the Green River Formation in the eastern Uinta Basin is present in two stratigraphic intervals separated by approximately 250 m of sandstone, siltstone, marlstone and lacustrine limestone (micrite, boundstone, grainstone).  The lower sequence, in the Garden Gulch Member, represents an early lacustrine phase of Lake Uinta and consists of approximately 29 m of interbedded clay-rich oil shale, gastropod grainstone and packstone, ostracod grainstone, algal boundstone and calcareous silty claystone. Fish fossils, plant debris, and pelecypods are locally present. Detrital clay minerals (smectite, chlorite and illite) are common and calcite abundance is greater than dolomite. The second oil-shale interval is located in the upper 10 m of the Parachute Creek Member. The Mahogany ledge crops out in the lower 15 m of this sequence. Oil shale in the Parachute Creek Member is a kerogenous dolomicrite (dolomite greater than calcite). Analcime, quartz, K-feldspar, and albite are also common. Illite is the dominant clay mineral. Fossils include insects, insect larvae, and plant debris. Marlstone and volcanic tuff are interstratified with oil shale.

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