30 D5. Paleontology (Posters)

Tuesday, 17 April 2018
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
First Floor Lobby

INSECT FOSSILS FROM THE LATE PALEOCENE (BULLION CREEK FORMATION) OF WANNAGAN CREEK, NORTH DAKOTA

Paper number: 30-5
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Authors

Abstract

Paleocene insect fossils are poorly represented in the fossil record of North America. The Fossil Lake Wannagan site has produced three undescribed insect fossils discovered during the Science Museum of Minnesota’s field seasons from 1970-1996. The insects discovered were an incomplete forewing of a dragonfly (Odonata) that resembles the extant family Aeschnidae, a nearly complete 2.5 cm puparium of a large Cyclorrhapha fly showing evidence of the operculum, and a fragment of a possible caddisfly (Trichoptera) wing.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 4

doi: 10.1130/abs/2018NC-312144

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