Description
Fossil Insect
- Unidentified Tiny Insect
- Eocene Age
- Green River Formation
- Bonanza, Utah
- In particular the Matrix measures 1.42 x 2.30″ wide .
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The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation. In this case it records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes. As a result three basins along the present-day Green River in Colorado,
Wyoming, and Utah. The sediments are deposited in very fine layers, for example there is a dark layer during the growing season, however a light-hue inorganic layer in the dry season. The Green River Formation is well known for its Fossil Fish but also contains a huge diversity of plants as well as insects, etc.
