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Fossil Pipunculidae?? SRIC
Copyright © 2008 Karl Volkman

Fossil Pipunculidae?? SRIC
Klondike Mountain Formation, 49 milliion years old, Ferry County, Washington, USA
Size: 1.5cm Hindwing
The only specimen of a possible Pipunculidae found at the fossil site.

The environment which this specimen lived in was upland subtropical/temperate, think SE Asia and SE USA combined, subtropical mixed broadleaf forest with a strong coniferous segment

January 22, 2008
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Contributed by Karl Volkman on 22 January, 2008 - 6:58pm
Last updated 30 April, 2008 - 3:36pm

This is very cool. It certain
This is very cool. It certainly is a pipunculid. I would be very interested in borrowing this specimen and describing it with you (if we can ID it to genus). I am a scientist at the Canadian National Collection and a specialist on this group (). Drop me an e-mail if you would be interested in sending the specimen to me for examination. It would be great if we could put a genus name on it. Thanks for posting this! I would never have known about it otherwise.
… Jeff Skevington, 23 February, 2008 - 8:19pm login or register to post comments

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