North-Central - 52nd Annual Meeting

Paper No. 30-5
Presentation Time: 8:00 AM-5:30 PM

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


HAIRE, Scott A., Biology, Science Museum of Minnesota, 120 W. Kellogg Blvd, St. Paul, MN 55102, HANKS, H. Douglas, Paleontology, Science Museum of Minnesota, 120 West Kellogg Blvd, St. Paul, MN 55102 and ERICKSON, Bruce R., Paleontology, Science Museum of Minnesota, 120 W. Kellogg Blvd, St. Paul, MN 55102

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.