Kishenehn Formation

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The Kishenehn Formation is a Paleogene stratigraphic unit in Montana. Fossil amiiforme and teleost fish have been found in outcrops of the formation's Coal Creek Member in Glacier National Park.^[1] Mosquitos have also been found in the Coal Creek Member, and have been found to be hematophagous. It is considered a Middle Eocene Lagerstätte.^[2]

Footnotes

↑ "Glacier National Park," Hunt, Santucci, and Kenworthy (2006); page 66.
↑ Greenwalt, Dale; Goreva, Yulia; Siljestrom, Sandra; Rose, Tim; Harbach, Ralph (12 November 2013). "Hemoglobin-derived porphyrins preserved in a Middle Eocene blood-engorged mosquito". PNAS. 110 (46): 18496–18500. Bibcode:2013PNAS..11018496G. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1310885110 . PMC 3831950 . PMID 24127577.

References

Hunt, ReBecca K., Vincent L. Santucci and Jason Kenworthy. 2006. "A preliminary inventory of fossil fish from National Park Service units." in S.G. Lucas, J.A. Spielmann, P.M. Hester, J.P. Kenworthy, and V.L. Santucci (ed.s), Fossils from Federal Lands. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 34, pp. 63–69.

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[nps-fish-glacier-66-1] "Glacier National Park," Hunt, Santucci, and Kenworthy (2006); page 66.

[Mosquito-2] Greenwalt, Dale; Goreva, Yulia; Siljestrom, Sandra; Rose, Tim; Harbach, Ralph (12 November 2013). "Hemoglobin-derived porphyrins preserved in a Middle Eocene blood-engorged mosquito". PNAS. 110 (46): 18496–18500. Bibcode:2013PNAS..11018496G. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1310885110 . PMC 3831950 . PMID 24127577.

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