Paleofauna of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands
The paleofauna of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands consists of Early Eocene arthropods, vertebrates, plus rare nematodes and molluscs found in geological formations of the northwestern North American Eocene Okanagan Highlands. The highlands lake bed series' as a whole are considered one of the great Canadian Lagerstätten. The paleofauna represents that of a late Ypresian upland temperate ecosystem immediately after the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, and before the increased cooling of the middle and late Eocene to Oligocene. The fossiliferous deposits of the region were noted as early as 1873, with small amounts of systematic work happening in the 1880-90s on British Columbian sites, and 1920-30s for Washington sites. Focus and more detailed descriptive work on the Okanagan Highlands site started in the last 1970's. Most of the highlands sites are preserved as compression-impression fossils in "shales", but also includes a rare permineralized biota and an amber biota.
![Paleofauna of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands is located in British Columbia](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Canada_British_Columbia_relief_location_map.jpg/300px-Canada_British_Columbia_relief_location_map.jpg)
![Driftwood](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png)
![Horsefly](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png)
![McAbee](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png)
![Hat Creek](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png)
![Falkland](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png)
![Quilchena](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png)
![Princeton](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png)
![Republic](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Extent
The 1,000 km (620 mi) series of lacustrine deposits are located across the Central British Columbia, Canada southeast to northern central Washington state, United States. grouped informally into "Northern", "Central", and "Southern" sites.[1] The Northern sites consist of unnamed Ootsa Group formations which outcrop as the "Driftwood shales" near Smithers, British Columbia, the "Horsefly shales", of an unnamed formation and unnamed group which outcrop around Horsefly, British Columbia,[1] and possibly sites now considered lost in the Quesnel, British Columbia area,[2] The Central sites represent Kamloops Group formations with the McAbee Fossil Beds, Tranquille River site and Falkland site, all in the Tranquille Formation, the Quichena site and Stump Lake site in the Coldwater Beds and outcrops of the Chu Chua Formation near Barriere, British Columbia. The Southern sites include the Princeton Group Allenby Formation sites surrounding Princeton, British Columbia, such as "Nine Mile Creek", "One Mile Creek", "Pleasant Valley", "Thomas Ranch", "Vermilian Bluffs", and "Whipsaw Creek". The Penticton Groups Kettle River, Marama and Marron Formations in the Boundary District along the Canada-United States border are closely correlated with the Klondike Mountain Formation across the border.[3] The most southerly of the Okanagan Highlands lakes, the Klondike Mountain Formation in Northern Ferry County, Washington include the "Boot Hill site", "Corner Lot site", "Gold Mountain site", "Knob Hill site", and "Mount Elizabeth site".[1]
There is debate as to the affiliation of the, potentially lost, Quesnel sites with the Greater Okanagan Highlands. Archibald et al. (2018) in a monograph of the Highlands Hymenoptera families included them as part of the series.[4] However the certainty for the placement was questioned earlier by Eberle et al. (2017)[5] and Archibald and Cannings (2022) who opted to tentatively exclude Quesnel from the highlands while discussing the history of field colleting in the region.[2]
Paleofauna
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Cimbrophlebia_bittaciformis_Fur_Formation.jpg/150px-Cimbrophlebia_bittaciformis_Fur_Formation.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Cimbrophlebia_brooksi_Holotype_SR_06-20-05_A.jpg/150px-Cimbrophlebia_brooksi_Holotype_SR_06-20-05_A.jpg)
Fur Formation (left), Okanagan Highlands (right)
The Okanagan highlands represent a snapshot of lake, wetlands, and montane forest animal life which existed approximately 15 million years ago after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. The temperate upland lakes hosted insects, fish, birds, and mammals with the notably well preserved megafossils often retaining insect colour patterns, gnat wing membrane hairs, and whole bird feathers.[6] In some cases the fine detail preservation of soft parts allows for the preservation of internal anatomy.[7]
Archibald and Makarkin (2006) suggested the disjunct distribution of genera between the Danish western Limfjord coasts Fur Formation and the Okanagan highlands may have been enabled by rising crust elevations in the northern Atlantic region and subsequent increase in landmass during the Late Paleocene which linked Northern Europe with Greenland until at least the Early Eocene.[8] Several land bridge routes may have acted as migration corridors for biotic interchange, the northern De Geer land bridge from Fennoscandia to North America via northern Greenland, and the southern Thulean land bridge from northern Britain though the Faroe Islands and then Greenland and North America. Several insect genera share disjunct distributions between the highlands and Limfjord including the mecopteran Cimbrophlebia, the giant lacewing Palaeopsychops, the green lacewing Protochrysa, the bull dog ant Ypresiomyrma.[8]
The Hat Creek Amber deposits in the central region provide evidence for small and microbiotic elements of the Okanagan Highlands forests though entombed organisms such at terrestrial nematodes and microwasps that otherwise would likely not be preserved in the lake environments.[9] The highlands as a whole have been described as one of the "Great Canadian Lagerstätten"[6] based on the diversity, quality and unique nature of the biotas that are preserved. The highlands temperate biome, preserved across a large transect of lakes, recorded many of the earliest appearances of modern genera, while also documenting the last stands of ancient lines.[6] David Grimaldi et al. (2018) during discussion of inclusions in Alaskan Chickaloon amber, noted the Okanagan Highlands record of latitudinal extinctions, specifically the modern southern hemisphere endemic groups Eomeropidae mecopterans and Myrmeciinae bulldog ants.[10]
Lithology
The majority of the lake deposits are compression fossils in lake bed sediments noted for both the paleofauna and paleofloras, with an additional pair of important non-compression biotas. A permineralized chert flora, the Princeton Chert is found along the Similkameen River interbedded with coal deposits of the Ashnola shale unit, Allenby Formation known for anatomically preserved plants.[11] In the Central sites, subbituminous coal of the Hat Creek Coalfield around Hat Creek hosts an entombment biota, the Hat Creek amber, which preserves highlands faunal elements that are not found in the compression biotas.[9][4] Initial discussion of the amber presented by George Poinar, Jr. et al. (1999) suggested the Hat Creek amber producing tree was likely to be an araucarian tree in the genus Agathis, based on unreported magnetic resonance spectroscopic analysis and earlier reports of the genus in Mesozoic Canada.[12] A purported occurrence of Araucaria at the McAbee site was used as additional support for the ambers origin.[13] The Agathis origin for Canadian Mesozoic amber was later called into question by Ryan McKellar and Alexander Wolfe (2010) based on a lack of any araucarian macrofossil history in the northern hemisphere[12] the McAbee fossils having been already reidentifed as from the cupressaceous Cunninghamia.[13] Based on Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopic analysis and associated amber inclusion fossils, they suggested the Mesozoic ambers of Canada to be from the extinct cupressaceous genus Parataxodium.[12] The origin of the Hat Creek ambers was further noted as likely from a cupressaceous source by Grimaldi et al. (2018) who call out a primary floral component of the host coal being Metasequoia and that the coeval Puget Group Tiger Mountain amber of Washington state is also of Metasequoia origins. They hypothesize that the major amber producing plant of the Paleocene Pacific Northwest forests as Metasequoia, but note that further investigation of Chickaloon, Hat Creek, Coalmont, and Tiger Mountain ambers would be needed.[10]
Mollusks
Mollusks are a rare component of the highlands, usually being mentioned only in passing, such as by Mark Wilson (1977, 1978),[14][15] and with fossils being reported from three sites only. A series of species were described from several Allenby Formation sites around Princeton by Russell (1957), who documented 4 gastropod species, and tentatively identified to genus another gastropod and a bivalve.[16] Additional unidentified small bivalve fossils were mentioned from the Pleasant Valley site by Wilson (1977) and the Quilchena site by Wilson (1987),[17] while unidentified gastropods were briefly mentioned by Kathleen Pigg et al. (2018).[18]
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
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†Micropyrgus | †Micropyrgus camselli[16] |
| A hydrobiid mud snail | ||
Stagnicola | †Stagnicola tulameenensis[16] |
| A lymnaeine pond snail | ||
Physidae | †Aplexa ricei[16] |
| An aplexine bladder snail | ||
†Physa saxarubrensis[16] |
| A physine bladder snail | |||
Planorbidae | †Ferrissia arionoides[16] |
| An ancylinine ramshorn snail | ||
Indeterminate[16] |
| A possible planorbinine ramshorn snail | |||
Indeterminate[16] |
| A possible sphaeriine fingernail clam | |||
Unidentified | Unidentified | Unidentified[14][17] |
| Unidentified freshwater bivalves. | |
Unidentified | Unidentified | Unidentified[18] |
| Unidentified freshwater gastropods. | ![]() |
Nematodes
In the initial description of Hat Creek Amber, Poinar et al. make note of nematode specimens found in the deposit, with a brief commentary regarding them as the oldest terrestrial free-living nematode fossils to have been found up to that point, but did not give any specific taxonomic identification beyond that.[9]
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unidentified | Unidentified | Unidentified[9] |
| Unidentified terrestrial specimens in amber |
Arachnids
A single arachnid has been described fully from the Okanagan highlands, the Nursery web spider Palaeoperenethis thaleri, known from an adult male. This spider was likely aquatic as are the other members of the family, and based on morphological similarities, it was possibly closer in relation to African and Asian species in the Perenethis genus group then to the only modern genus in British Columbia Dolomedes.[19] Another spider specimen, University of Alberta 5007 was noted by Wilson (1977) from the Kamloops area, while various spiders have been attributed to the McAbee fossil beds.[20] Undescribed male and female orb-web spiders were figured by Wehr (1998) from the Princeton area.[21] Unspecified spider compression fossils were mentioned as occurring in passing by David Greenwood et al. (2005) while discussing the increasing taxonomic richness of the highlands, but without specific site information.[22] Additionally, undiscussed amber fossils were mentioned by Poinar et al. (1999) in their initial report of Hat Creek amber inclusions.[9] Other arachnid evidence has been recovered in the form of fossil hymenopterans placed in families known predate or parasitize spiders. A diverse undescribed fauna of the "parasitoid" wasp family Ichneumonidae is known, some species of which are known to parasitize eggs or adult spiders. Another family, Sphecidae, which is a documented opportunistic predator of spiders and certain insets is known from a few isolated fossils at McAbee and Republic. Lastly the vespoid family Pompilidae has been found at both McAbee and Republic. This family, known as spider wasps, are behaviorally specialized as predators of spiders and a few other arachnids, provisioning newly laid eggs with a single spider as a larder to feed on while developing.[4] Galling preserved on Acer species leaf fossils has been attributed to mites in the family Eriophyidae.[23]
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unidentified | Unidentified[21] |
| An orb-weaver spider | ||
| |||||
Unidentified | Unidentified[23] |
| Trace fossils | ||
Unidentified | Unidentified | Unidentified[24][20] |
| Spider Compression fossils from Kamloops area locations | |
Unidentified[24] |
| Possible Araneidae? or Tetragnathidae? fossils | |||
Unidentified[22] |
| Spider compression fossils from unspecified highlands locations | |||
Unidentified[9] |
| Spider specimens in amber |
Crustaceans
The earliest report of Crayfish from the highlands was by Wesley Wehr and Lisa Barksdale (1995). In a short Washington Geology article they reported the first identified occurrence of feathers from the Klondike Mountain Formation and crayfish from both there and the McAbee site. At that time, the moulted carapace section from Republic was not identified further than as a freshwater crayfish. The McAbee specimen was tentatively identified, from photograph, as being a possible Procambarus species fossil by malacologist Rodney M. Feldmann.[25] Subsequently an additional series of over ten fossils were recovered from McAbee and described in 2011 as Aenigmastacus crandalli by Feldmann, Carrie Schweitzer, and John Leahy. A. crandalli was placed in the southern hemisphere superfamily Parastacoidea based on several morphological characters, and they noted this species to be the only northern hemisphere member of the superfamily.[26]
At the Quilchena site, brief mention was reported in 2016 of ostracod fossils, though no further discussion or description has happened.[27]
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A parastacid crayfish. | ||||
unidentified | Unidentified | unidentified[25] |
| An unidentified crayfish | ![]() undescribed |
unidentified | Unidentified | unidentified[28][27] |
| Unidentified ostracod shells |
Insects
Blattodea
In the initial description of Hat Creek Amber, Poinar et al. make note of a single adult Corydiinae cockroach specimen found in the amber, with a brief commentary on the modern tropical-subtropical distribution of that subfamily and a lack of any native cockroach species in western Canada, but did not give any specific taxonomic identification for the specimen beyond that.[9]
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
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Undescribed | Undescribed[27][22] |
| Undescribed Diplopterine cockroaches. | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[29] |
| A blattoidean cockroach | ![]() | |
Unidentified | Unidentified[9] |
| An undescribed corydiine cockroach | ||
Unidentified | Unidentified[20] |
| Harvester termites | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[24][14][22][20] |
| |||
undescribed | Undescribed | Undescribed[29] |
| Undescribed termites of uncertain affiliation | ![]() |
Coleopterans
The order Coleoptera is divided into four major lineages, Adephaga, Archostemata, Myxophaga, and Polyphaga, with the last group being the most species diverse of the four. Hat Creek amber has provided one fully described beetle species Prionocerites tattriei,[30] which is known from a larval stage specimen first reported by Poinar et al. (1999).[9] The species and genus were the first North American taxon from the family to be described.[30]
Adephaga
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
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Carabidae | Amara | †Amara paleomelas[31] |
| A sun beetle | ![]() (1890 illustration) |
Cf. Amara | Undescribed[27] |
| A sun beetle relative | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[29][33][27][20] |
| Undescribed ground beetles. | ![]() | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[29] |
| |||
Undescribed | Undescribed | Undescribed[33] |
| A caraboid superfamily beetle |
Archostemata
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Undescribed | Undescribed[20] |
| Reticulated beetles |
Polyphaga
Cucujiformia
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brentidae | †Eoceneithycerus | †Eoceneithycerus carpenteri[34] |
| ![]() | |
†Ithyceroides | †Ithyceroides klondikensis[35] |
| |||
Undescribed | Undescribed[29][33][20] |
| long-horn beetles | ||
Chrysomelidae | †Cryptocephalites | †Cryptocephalites punctatus[36] |
| ![]() (1895 illustration) | |
†Galerucella picea[32] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) | |||
Caryobruchus–Speciomerus genus group | Undescribed[37] |
| palm beetles, originally identified as cf. tribe Caryopemina.[27] | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[29][20] |
| leaf beetles | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[29][33][27][20] |
| Undescribed weevils | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[20] |
| Pintail beetles | ||
†Prionocerites | †Prionocerites tattriei[30] |
| A Prionocerid beetle | ||
†Tenebrio primigenius[32] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) | |||
Undescribed | Undescribed[20] |
| Undescribed checkered beetle relatives | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[27] |
| Undescribed pleasing fungus beetle relatives. | ||
Unidentified | Undescribed | Undescribed[33] |
| A cucujiform beetle |
Elateriformia
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Buprestidae | Buprestis | †Buprestis saxigena[32][36] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) | |
†Buprestis sepulta[32] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) | |||
†Buprestis tertiaria[32] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) | |||
Undescribed | Undescribed[33] |
| A soldier beetle | ||
Elateridae | Ligmargus | †Ligmargus terrestris[38] |
| A click beetle | ![]() (1890 illustration) |
†Limonius impunctus[36][38] |
| ![]() (1895 illustration) | |||
†Elaterites | undescribed[36] |
| A click beetle. | ![]() (1890 illustration) | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[29][33][20] |
| undescribed click beetles |
Scarabaeiformia
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Undescribed | Undescribed[29][33] |
| |||
Undescribed | Undescribed[20] |
| Bess beetles | ||
†Trox oustaleti[32] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) | |||
Undescribed | Undescribed | Undescribed[33][27] |
| Undescribed scarab superfamily beetles. |
Staphyliniformia
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cercyon? | †Cercyon? terrigena[32] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[27] |
| Undescribed Omaliinae rove beetles. | ||
Unidentified | Undescribed | Undescribed[33] |
| A possible staphylinoid beetle |
Dermapterans
Earwig fossils were first noted from republic by paleoentomologist Standley Lewis (1992) in his initial report of the insect diversity at Republic. He noted the fossils to be some of the oldest Eocene demapterans in North America at that time and figured one undescribed specimen consisting of a females abdomen section and cerci.[29] Lewis (1994) tentatively identified the earwigs as members of family Forficulidae based on the shape of the cerci, and illustrated four female fossils, identified as such from the simple straight nature of the cercus. Lewis also suggested two different species were present, based on the differing lengths of the female cerci.[39]
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
?Forficulidae | Undescribed | "Forficulid species 1"[39] |
| A forficulid? earwig species with long cerci | ![]() undescribed |
"Forficulid species 2"[39] |
| A forficulid? earwig species with short cerci | ![]() undescribed | ||
Unidentified[20] |
| A possible forficulid earwig | |||
Undescribed | Undescribed[27] |
| A forficuline earwig of undetermined placement |
Dipterans
The most common animal fossils at many of the highlands sites are bibionid march flies,[22] with over twenty species from the genera Penthetria and Plecia described.[40] The modern diversity of the family is greatest in lower latitudes, and Plecia only reaches northward to the warm temperate areas of southeastern North America.[22] In the initial description of Hat Creek Amber, Poinar et al. make note of dipteran inclusions found in the deposit but did not give any specific taxonomic identification of taxa or illustrate any specimen.[9]
Brachycera
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Undescribed | Undescribed[41] |
| Trace fossils | ||
†Microphor defunctus[42] |
| A long-legged fly | ![]() (1910 illustration) | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[24][33] |
| dagger flies | ||
Pipunculidae |
| ![]() | |||
Indeterminate | indeterminate[27][44] |
| Big headed flies, | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[33] |
| snipe flies | ||
Unidentified | Unidentified[24][27][20][45] |
| hover flies or, less likely, thick headed flies |
Nematocera
The highlands have been noted for the number of Bibionid taxa named in the early work on British Columbian sites. Over 25 unique species have been ascribed to the fossils, with the current count sitting at 22, but doubt has been raised as to the true number of species present and around the generic affinities. The first species was described by Scudder (1879 from the Allenby Formation, while the largest number of species were named by Handlirsch (1910). Following the practice of the time, both Scudder and Handlirsch placed their species in the genus Penthetria. Harrington Molesworth Anthony Rice (1959) reviewed the British Columbian bibionids, notably deeming the majority of species as belonging to Plecia or an undescribed extinct genus and not Penthetria.[40] This placement decision has been questioned however, with Giuseppe Gentilini (1991) asserting the majority of highlands species should be returned to Penthetria.[46] Rice, noted to be a "splitter",[14] also noted the large overlap between the morphology of two species groups and mused that larger collection samples may reveal each group to be single species. He called out in the species discussions the similarities between Plecia avus, P. canadensis, P. dilatata, P. pictipennis, P. pulchra, and P. transitoria, and the similarities between P. curtula, P. nana, P. pulla, and P. reducta.[40]
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bibionidae | †Penthetria? fryi[40] |
| A possible penthetrian march fly | ![]() | |
Penthetria | †Penthetria intermedia[40] |
| A plecian marchfly | ||
†Penthetria whipsawensis[40] |
| ![]() | |||
Plecia | †Plecia angustipennis[40] |
| A plecian marchfly | ![]() | |
†Plecia avus[40] |
| A plecian marchfly | ![]() | ||
†Plecia cairnesi[40] |
| ![]() | |||
†Plecia canadensis[40] |
| A plecian marchfly | ![]() | ||
†Plecia curtula[40] |
| A plecian marchfly | ![]() | ||
†Plecia dilatata[40] |
| A plecian marchfly | ![]() | ||
†Plecia elatior[40] |
| A plecian marchfly | ![]() | ||
†Plecia kelownaensis[40] |
| ![]() | |||
†Plecia minutula[40] |
| ![]() | |||
†Plecia nana[40] |
| A plecian marchfly | ![]() | ||
†Plecia pictipennis[40] |
| A plecian marchfly | ![]() | ||
†Plecia platyptera[40] |
| A plecian marchfly | ![]() | ||
†Plecia pulchra[40] |
| A plecian marchfly | ![]() | ||
†Plecia pulla[40] |
| A plecian marchfly | ![]() | ||
†Plecia reducta[40] |
| A plecian marchfly | ![]() | ||
†Plecia similkameena[32] |
| A plecian marchfly | ![]() | ||
†Plecia transitoria[40] |
| A plecian marchfly | ![]() | ||
†Plecia tulameenensis[40] |
| ![]() | |||
Undescribed | Undescribed[29] |
| A march fly | ![]() undescribed | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[45] |
| A bolitophilid fungus gnat | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[41] |
| Trace fossils | ![]() | |
Unidentified | Unidentified[20] |
| long-bodied craneflies | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[45] |
| A possible keroplatid fungus gnat | ||
Unidentified | Unidentified[20] |
| Limoniid craneflies | ||
Mycetophilidae | Undescribed | Undescribed[45] |
| A gnoristine fungus gnat | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[45] |
| A leiine fungus gnat | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[45] |
| A mycetophiline fungus gnat | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[45] |
| A mycomyiine fungus gnat | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[45] |
| A sciophiline fungus gnat | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[24][29][33][27][20] |
| fungus gnats unplaced to subfamily | ||
†Etoptychoptera | †Etoptychoptera tertiaria[50] |
| ![]() (1910 illustration) | ||
Unidentified | Unidentified[24][33] |
| dark-winged fungus gnats | ||
Tipulidae | †Tipula tulameena[43] |
| A cranefly | ![]() (1910 illustration) | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[24][29][33][27][20][45] |
| crane flies | ![]() | |
Unidentified | Unidentified[20] |
| winter craneflies | ||
Unidentified | Unidentified | Unidentified[9] |
| Unidentified dipteran specimens in amber |
Ephemeropterans
Lewis (1992) listed one species of Heptageniidae and three specimens that he did not place to family from Republic.[29] The next year Lewis and Wehr (1993) gave a slightly more detailed description of the specimens again identifying one to Heptageniidae, possibly in the genera Heptagenia or Stenonema.[51] The specimens were later examined by Nina D. Sinitchenkova (1999) who described one as a squaregill mayfly and the oldest member of the genus Neoephemera, confirmed the Heptageniidae identification but that it was unidentifiable to genus. The last specimen she confirmed as an ephemeropteran, but unidentifiable below order level.[52]
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indeterminate | Indeterminate[52][20] |
| A flat headed mayfly | ![]() | |
†Neoephemera antiqua[52] |
|
Hemipterans
Greenwood et al. (2005) briefly discussed the prevalence of Aphid fossils at highlands sites where the taphonomic factors allowed for fine detail preservation such as in the Driftwood shales.[22] Poinar et al. (1999) made note of hemipteran specimens found in Hat Creek Amber but did not give any specific taxonomic identification or illustrate any specimens.[9]
Auchenorrhyncha
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aphrophoridae | Aphrophora | Aphrophora angusta[43] |
| An aphrophorine spittle bug hindwing species. | ![]() (1910 illustration) |
"Indeterminate"[53] |
| An aphrophorine spittle bug | |||
Undescribed[29] |
| An aphrophorid spittlebug | ![]() | ||
†Palaeoptysma | †Palaeoptysma venosa[53] |
| ![]() (1895 illustration) | ||
†Palaphrodes | "Indeterminate"[49] |
| An aphrophorine spittle bug | ||
†Petrolystra | Undescribed[29] |
| An aphrophorid spittlebug | ||
†Ptysmaphora | †Ptysmaphora fletcheri[53] |
| ![]() (1895 illustration) | ||
Cercopidae | Cercopis | †Cercopis grandescens[53] |
| ![]() (1895 illustration) | |
†Cercopis selwyni[32] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) | |||
†Cercopites | †Cercopites torpescens[53] |
| ![]() (1895 illustration) | ||
†Dawsonites | †Dawsonites veter[53] |
| ![]() (1895 illustration) | ||
†Palecphora | Undescribed[49][29] |
| A froghopper | ||
†Stenecphora | †Stenecphora punctulata[53] |
| ![]() (1895 illustration) | ||
†Stenolocris | †Stenolocris venosa[53] |
| ![]() (1895 illustration) | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[24][29][27][20] |
| cercopid froghoppers | ![]() | |
Cicadellidae | Coelidia | †Coelidia columbiana[32] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[24][27][20] |
| leafhoppers | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[20] |
| True cicadas | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[27] |
| A cixiid planthopper | ||
"Indeterminate"[53] |
| An enchophorine lantern bug | |||
Undescribed | Undescribed[27][20] |
| A ricaniid planthopper | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed | Undescribed[29] |
| A fulgoroidean hopper | |
Incertae sedis | †Planophlebia | †Planophlebia gigantea[54] |
| A hemipteran[32] of uncertain placement | ![]() (1890 illustration) |
Heteroptera
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Undescribed | Undescribed[20] |
| Relatives of leaf-footed bugs | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[27] |
| A cydnid burrowing bug | ||
Undescribed[27][22] |
| A dinidorid shield bug | |||
Gerridae | Undescribed[20] |
| gerrine water striders | ||
†Limnoporus wilsoni[27][55] |
| A gerrine water strider[56] | |||
†Telmatrechus | †Telmatrechus defunctus[27][56] |
| A gerrine water strider | ![]() (1910 illustration) | |
†Telmatrechus stali[27][56] |
| A gerrine water strider | ![]() (1890 illustration) | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[24][29] |
| A Shield or stink bug | ![]() | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[27] |
| Pentatomoid shield bugs of uncertain familial placement |
Sternorrhyncha
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aphididae | Undescribed | Undescribed[29][27][20] |
| Aphids | |
Undescribed[41] |
| Trace fossils | |||
Unidentified | Unidentified | Unidentified |
| aphidoid specimens |
Unidentified
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unidentified | Unidentified | Unidentified[9] |
| Hemipterans in amber |
Hymenopterans
Archibald, Mathewes, & Aase (2023) reported a Titanomyrma species ant queen from Allenby Formation, and noted the range extension for Formiciinae into the highlands, as the subfamily was previously considered a strictly thermophilic ant group. Due to complications arising from preservational distortion during diagenesis, they were unable to determine the correct size of the queen in life. If the distortion was lateral, then compression to bilateral symmetry yielded an adult length of approximately 3.3 cm (1.3 in), placing it the same range as Formicium berryi and F. brodiei, known only from wings, and suggested as possible males. Conversely stretching the fossil to bilateral symmetry results in a larger 5 cm (2.0 in) length estimate, placing it as comparable to queens of T. lubei and T. simillima.[57]
Symphyta
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
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Cephidae |
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Undescribed | "Undescribed[4] |
| |||
Cimbicidae[4] | †Allenbycimbex[58] | †Allenbycimbex morrisae[58] |
| A cenocimbicine cimbicid sawfly. | |
†Leptostigma[58] | †Leptostigma alaemacula[58] |
| A cenocimbicine cimbicid sawfly. | ||
†Leptostigma brevilatum[58] |
| A cenocimbicine cimbicid sawfly. | ![]() | ||
†Leptostigma fasciatum[58] |
| A cenocimbicine cimbicid sawfly. | |||
†Leptostigma longiclava[58] |
| A cenocimbicine cimbicid sawfly. | |||
†Leptostigma longipallidum[58] |
| A cenocimbicine cimbicid sawfly. | |||
†Leptostigma longitenebricum[58] |
| A cenocimbicine cimbicid sawfly. | |||
†Leptostigma proxivena[58] |
| A cenocimbicine cimbicid sawfly. | |||
Unidentified | Unidentified[58] |
| A cimbicid sawfly of indeterminate subfamily. | ||
| A parasitic wasp | ||||
Siricidae | †Eourocerus | †Eourocerus anguliterreus[60] |
| ![]() | |
| |||||
Tenthredinidae | †Eriocampa tulameenensis[61][4] |
| ![]() | ||
Pseudosiobla | †Pseudosiobla campbelli[61][4] |
| ![]() | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| Sawflys of the tenthredinid subfamily Allantinae | ||
Undescribed[4] |
| Sawflys of the tenthredinid subfamily Blennocampinae | |||
Undescribed[4] |
| Sawflys of the tenthredinid subfamily Nematinae | |||
Undescribed[4] |
| Sawflys of the tenthredinid subfamily Tenthredininae | |||
Undescribed[4] |
| Sawflys of the family Tenthredinidae, unplaced to subfamily |
Parasitoida
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Braconidae | Undescribed[32] |
| A Bracon sensu lato species wasp. | ![]() specimen 69&78 (1890 illustration) | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| braconid parasitic wasps unplaced to subfamily | ![]() | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[41] |
| Trace fossils | ![]() | |
Cynipidae (?) | Undescribed | Undescribed[33][4] |
| cynipid Cynipoid gallwasps | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| diapriid diaprioid wasps | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| figitid cynipoid wasps | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| helorid proctotrupoid wasps | ||
Ichneumonidae | †Xorides lambei[43] |
| A xoridine ichneumon parasitic wasp | ![]() (1910 illustration) | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[33][4] |
| ichneumonid parasitic wasps unplaced to subfamily | ![]() | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| ceraphronoid Megaspilid parasitic wasps | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| monomachid diaprioid wasps | ||
Peradeniidae | Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| peradeniid proctotrupoid wasps | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| proctotrupid parasitic wasps | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| roproniid (sensu lato) proctotrupoid wasps | ||
incertae sedis[4] | Undescribed | Undescribed |
| Chalcidoid superfamily wasps | |
Undescribed[4] |
| mymarommatoid microhymenopterans |
Non-apoidean Aculeates
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| Chrysidoid wasps of the chrysidid subfamily Chrysidinae | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[33][4] |
| pompilid spider wasps | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[33][4] |
| Scoliid wasps of the subfamily Archaeoscoliinae | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| trigonalid parasitic wasps | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| Vespid wasps |
Formicoidea
subfamily | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dolichoderinae | Undescribed[4] |
| Dolichoderus species ants.[4] Not described to species | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| Dolichoderine ants.[4] Not described to genus/species | ||
Indeterminate[57] |
| A formiciine titan ant. | ![]() | ||
Formicinae | †Eoecophylla | †Eoecophylla quilchenensis[62] |
| A weaver ant | |
†Oecophylla kraussei[63] |
| A weaver ant | |||
Indeterminate | indeterminate[62] |
| An weaver ant tribe worker | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| Formicinae subfamily ants.[4] | ||
Myrmeciinae | †Avitomyrmex | †Avitomyrmex elongatus[65][4] |
| A myrmeciine bulldog ant.[4] | |
†Avitomyrmex mastax[65][4] |
| A myrmeciine bulldog ant.[4] | |||
†Avitomyrmex systenus[65][4] |
| A myrmeciine bulldog ant.[4] | |||
†Macabeemyrma ovata[65][4] |
| A myrmeciine bulldog ant.[4] | |||
†Myrmeciites | †Myrmeciites? goliath[65][4] |
| A myrmeciine bulldog ant.[4] | ||
†Myrmeciites? tabanifluviensis[65][4] |
| A myrmeciine bulldog ant.[4] | |||
†Myrmeciites herculeanus[65][4] |
| A myrmeciine bulldog ant.[4] | |||
"Indeterminate"[65][4] |
| bull dog ants | ![]() | ||
| A myrmeciine bulldog ant, first described as a rhopalosomatid wasp.[4] | ![]() | |||
†Ypresiomyrma | †Ypresiomyrma bartletti[65][4] |
| A myrmeciine bulldog ant.[4] | ||
†Ypresiomyrma orbiculata[65][4] |
| A myrmeciine bulldog ant.[4] | ![]() | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| Myrmeciinae ants.[4] Not described to species | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| Myrmicine ants of either Leptothorax or Tetramorium[4] Not described to species | ||
Incertae sedis | †Klondikia whiteae[66][4] |
| An ant of uncertain subfamily placement[4] | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[33][4] |
| Ants of uncertain subfamily placement.[4] | ![]() |
Apoidea
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Angarosphecidae | †Eosphecium | †Eosphecium naumanni[4] |
| A spheciform wasp. | |
Undescribed[4] |
| Spheciform wasps. | |||
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| Spheciform wasps, likely not Eosphecium. | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| Apid bees | ||
Halictidae (?) |
| A sweat bee of uncertain generic placement | |||
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| sweat bees | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| Megachilid leaf-cutter bee herbivory trace fossils on leaves | ![]() | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[4] |
| Sphecid (sensu stricto) wasps |
Lepidoptera
A solitary complete adult female lepidopteran fossil has been recovered, but no full descriptive work has been published on the specimen, aside from a single PhD dissertation.[33] Early examination placed the moth in the family Geometridae, but later work has identified it as the oldest member of the tiger moth subfamily Arctiinae.[67] Two additional isolated wing fossils have been found with one tentatively placed within Noctuidae based on the wing venation and structure,[33] while the second has not been placed beyond order level.[68] Laval mining and hole feeding damage on leaves has been attributed to the families Coleophoridae, Gracillariidae, Heliozelidae, Incurvariidae, and Nepticulidae[41][69]
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Undescribed[41][68] |
| Trace fossils | |||
Undescribed | Undescribed[67] |
| An arctiine tiger moth | ![]() undescribed | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[41][20] |
| Trace fossils | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[41][69] |
| Trace fossils | ||
Undescribed[41] |
| Trace fossils | |||
Stigmella | Undescribed[41] |
| Trace fossils | ||
Stigmella | Undescribed[41] |
| Trace fossils | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[33] |
| A possible owlet moth | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed | Undescribed[68] |
| A lepidopteran forewing |
Mecopterans
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Undescribed | Undescribed[20] |
| hangingfly specimens | ||
†Cimbrophlebiidae | †Cimbrophlebia | †Cimbrophlebia brooksi[70] |
| ![]() | |
†Cimbrophlebia flabelliformis[70] |
| ||||
†Cimbrophlebia leahyi[70] |
| ||||
†Cimbrophlebia westae[70] |
| ![]() | |||
†Dinopanorpidae | †Dinokanaga | †Dinokanaga andersoni[71] |
| ![]() | |
†Dinokanaga dowsonae[71] |
| ![]() | |||
†Dinokanaga hillsi[71] |
| ||||
| |||||
†Dinokanaga webbi[71] |
| ||||
†Dinokanaga wilsoni[71] |
| ||||
Eomeropidae | †Eomerope | †Eomerope eonearctica[72] |
| ||
†Eomerope macabeensis[73] |
| ||||
†Eomerope simpkinsae[72] |
| ||||
†Eorpidae | †Eorpa | †Eorpa elverumi[74] |
| | |
†Eorpa jurgeni[74] |
| ||||
†Eorpa ypsipeda[74] |
| ![]() | |||
†Holcorpa dillhoffi[75] |
| ||||
Undescribed | Undescribed[74] |
| Undescribed common scorpionflies |
Neuropterans
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||
Chrysopidae | †Adamsochrysa | †Adamsochrysa aspera[76] |
| A nothochrysine green lacewing | |
†Adamsochrysa wilsoni[76] |
| A nothochrysine green lacewing | ![]() | ||
†Archaeochrysa | †Archaeochrysa profracta[76] |
| A nothochrysine green lacewing | ||
†Archaeochrysa sanikwa[77] |
| A nothochrysine green lacewing | |||
†Lithochrysa | †Lithochrysa borealis[78] |
| A nothochrysine green lacewing | ||
†Okanaganochrysa | †Okanaganochrysa coltsunae[76] |
| A nothochrysine green lacewing | ||
†Protochrysa | †Protochrysa fuscobasalis[76] |
| A limaiine green lacewing | ||
†Pseudochrysopa | †Pseudochrysopa harveyi[76] |
| A nothochrysine green lacewing | ||
†Corydasialidae | †Ypresioneura | †Ypresioneura obscura[79] |
| A corydasialid lacewing | |
Hemerobiidae | †Archibaldia | †Archibaldia wehri[80][81][82] |
| A hemerobiid lacewing | |
†Wesmaelius mathewesi[80] |
| ||||
Undescribed | Undescribed[20] |
| Brown lacewing specimens | ||
Ithonidae | †Allorapisma chuorum[83] |
| An Ithonid group moth lacewing | ![]() | |
†Palaeopsychops |
| A polystechotid group moth lacewing | |||
| A polystechotid group moth lacewing | ||||
| A polystechotid group moth lacewing | ![]() | |||
| A polystechotid group moth lacewing | ||||
†Palaeopsychops timmi[84] |
| A polystechotid group moth lacewing | ![]() | ||
†Polystoechotites |
| A polystechotid group moth lacewing | ![]() | ||
| A polystechotid group moth lacewing | ![]() | |||
| A polystechotid group moth lacewing | ![]() | |||
†Ricaniella | †Ricaniella antiquata[85] |
| A Polystoechotid-group moth lacewing[86] | ![]() (1895 illustration) | |
Undescribed | Undescribed[20] |
| Polystoechotid-group moth lacewings | ||
Nymphidae | †Epinesydrion | †Epinesydrion falklandensis[88] |
| A split-footed lacewing, possibly sister species to †Nymphes georgei | |
†Nymphes(?) georgei[89] |
| A split-footed lacewing | ![]() | ||
Osmylidae | †Osmylidia | †Osmylidia donnae[90] |
| A protosmyline osmylid lacewing | |
†Osmylidia glastrai[90] |
| A protosmyline osmylid lacewing | |||
Indeterminate[90] |
| A protosmyline osmylid lacewing, | |||
Undescribed | Undescribed[20] |
| osmylid lacewing specimens | ||
| A possible psychopsid lacewing | ![]() | |||
Undescribed | Undescribed | Undescribed[20] |
| Members of an undescribed neuropteran family |
Odonata
Trace fossil evidence of damselflies has been recorded from oviposition scars on various leaves from the Klondike Mountain Formation that have been placed in the ichnogenus Paleoovoidus. Lewis and Carrol (1991) originally identified the damage on an Alnus parvifolia leaf as caused by leaf beetles of the genus Altica. This was later questioned by Conrad Labandeira who noted the scar patterns did not match modern Altica egg laying behaviour.
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
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Aeshnidae | †Antiquiala | †Antiquiala snyderae[92] |
| ![]() | |
†Eoshna | †Eoshna thompsonensis[92] |
| |||
†Idemlinea | †Idemlinea versatilis[92] |
| ![]() | ||
†Ypshna | †Ypshna brownleei[92] |
| ![]() | ||
†Ypshna latipennata[92] |
| ||||
†Dysagrionidae | †Dysagrion | †Dysagrion pruettae[93] |
| A Dysagrionine cephalozygopteran odonate | ![]() |
†Dysagrionites | †Dysagrionites delinei[93] |
| A dysagrionine cephalozygopteran odonate | ![]() | |
†Okanagrion | †Okanagrion angustum[93] |
| A Dysagrionine cephalozygopteran odonate | ||
†Okanagrion beardi[93] |
| A Dysagrionine cephalozygopteran odonate | |||
†Okanagrion dorrellae[93] |
| A Dysagrionine cephalozygopteran odonate | ![]() | ||
†Okanagrion hobani[93] |
| A Dysagrionine cephalozygopteran odonate | ![]() | ||
| A Dysagrionine cephalozygopteran odonate | ![]() | |||
†Okanagrion lochmum[93] |
| A Dysagrionine cephalozygopteran odonate | |||
| A Dysagrionine cephalozygopteran odonate | ![]() | |||
†Okanagrion worleyae[93] |
| A Dysagrionine cephalozygopteran odonate | ![]() | ||
†Okanopteryx | †Okanopteryx fraseri[93] |
| A Dysagrionine cephalozygopteran odonate | ||
†Okanopteryx jeppesenorum[93] |
| A Dysagrionine cephalozygopteran odonate | ![]() | ||
†Okanopteryx macabeensis[93] |
| A Dysagrionine cephalozygopteran odonate | |||
†Stenodiafanus | †Stenodiafanus westersidei[93] |
| A Dysagrionine cephalozygopteran odonate | ![]() | |
Cf. †Dysagrionidae | †Allenbya |
| A possible Dysagrionidae odonate. | ![]() | |
†Republica | †Republica weatbrooki[94] |
| A gossamerwing damselfly. | ![]() | |
†Auroradraco | †Auroradraco eos[92] |
| |||
†Whetwhetaksidae | †Whetwhetaksa | †Whetwhetaksa millerae[93] |
| A possible cephalozygopteran odonate | ![]() |
Orthoptera
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unidentified | Unidentified[20] |
| Catanopine short-horned grasshopper specimens | ||
Unidentified | Unidentified[20] |
| Possible leaf-rolling cricket specimens | ||
†Promastax archaicus[43] |
| ![]() (1910 illustration) | |||
†Palaeorehniidae |
| ![]() | |||
†Ypopteron | †Ypopteron nicola[95] |
| A palaeorehniid ensiferan. | ||
Unidentified | Unidentified[20] |
| grig specimens | ||
Unidentified | Unidentified[20] |
| katydid specimens |
Phasmatodea
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
†Eoprephasma hichensi[96] |
|
Plecoptera
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unidentified | Unidentified | Unidentified[20] |
| stonefly specimens |
Psocodea
The only reported Psocodea fossils from the highlands are known from Hat Creek amber. They were mentioned, as "Psocoptera", in passing by Poinar et al. (1999) who did not give any finer taxonomic detail or illustrate any specimens.[9]
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unidentified | Unidentified | Unidentified[9] |
| specimens in amber |
Raphidiopterans
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
†Paraksenocellia | †Paraksenocellia borealis[97] |
| |||
Raphidiidae |
| ![]() | |||
†Megaraphidia | †Megaraphidia antiquissima[98] |
| |||
†Megaraphidia hopkinsi[98] |
| ||||
†Megaraphidia klondika[98] |
| ||||
†Megaraphidia ootsa[98] |
|
Thrysanoptera
Poinar et al. (1999) illustrated a Thrips specimen in Hat Creek amber and noted the presence of the order in the fossils they examined, however they did not provide any finer taxonomic details on the affinities of the fossils.[9]
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
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Unidentified | Unidentified | Unidentified[9] |
| specimens in amber |
Trichoptera
Trichopterans are known mainly from laraval cases and occasional isolated wings.[27]
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unidentified | unidentified[29] |
| northern caddisflies | ||
Unidentified | Unidentified[29][27] |
| giant caddisflies | ![]() | |
Unidentified | Unidentified | Unidentified[24][27][20] |
| Isolated wings and larval cases |
Vertebrates
"Fish"
The first fish to be described from the Okanagan Highlands were recovered from Allenby Formation shales and subsequently studied by Edward Drinker Cope who named Amyzon brevipinne in 1894. The next descriptive work for a fish came in 1916 with the naming of "Lucious" rosei by Louis Hussakof from Tranquille Formation fossils collected at "Red point" on Kamloops Lake in 1914.[99] "Lucious" rosei was redescribed in 1966 by Ted Cavander, who moved the species to a new genus Eohiodon placed into the mooneye family Hiodontidae. The largest body of work for fish of the Highlands was by Mark Wilson (1977) who published a monograph detailing the Canadian highlands formations fish fauna, naming four new species in three new genera, plus redescribing both "Amyzon" brevipinne and "Eohiodon" rosei. The monograph added the families Salmonidae with Eosalmo driftwoodensis, Libotoniidae with Libotonius blakeburnensis, and Moronidae with Priscacara aquilonia.[24] A year later the first species from the Republic area, "Eohiodon" woodruffi was described by Wilson,[100] and the second Republic species Libotonius pearsoni followed in 1979.[101] in 1982 the final new fish species named from the highlands, Amia hesperia, was described, being initially placed by Wilson in the modern bowfin genus Amia.[102] This placement was later questioned by Lance Grande and William Bemis (1998), who noted that due to preservational orientation of the A. hesperia holotype, generic placement of the species was problematic. Phylogenetic analysis of Amiidae fossils by Grande and Bemis found the fossil as a member of the amiinae subfamily, but with key mouth anatomy missing, were unable to determine if Amia or the extinct genus Cyclurus was correct.[103] In 2021 fossils of "Amyzon" brevipinne were redescribed by Juan Liu based on the holotype and additional fossils from the Allenby Formation, and based on the anatomical differences between the species and the type species of Amyzon mentale determined that the Princeton fossils were part of a different genus. As such Liu moved the species to the new genus Wilsonium.[104]
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
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Amiidae | Amia? | †Amia? hesperia[102] |
| A bowfin of uncertain genus placement[103] | |
†Amia? hesperia?[28][102] |
| isolated bowfin scales[103] | ![]() | ||
Catostomidae | †Amyzon | †Amyzon aggregatum[24][105] |
| A sucker | |
Unidentified[24][105][104][20] |
| A sucker | ![]() | ||
†Wilsonium | †Wilsonium brevipinne[24][106][104] |
| A catostomid sucker, | ||
Cf. †Wilsonium brevipinne[17][28][104] |
| A catostomid sucker, | |||
Hiodontidae | Hiodon | †Hiodon rosei[24][100][107][20] |
| A mooneye, first described as Lucious rosei (1916), | |
†Hiodon woodruffi[100][107] |
| A mooneye, first described as Eohiodon woodruffi.[100] | ![]() | ||
Unidentified[28] |
| A mooneye jaw. | |||
†Libotoniidae | †Libotonius |
| A sand roller relative. | ||
†Libotonius pearsoni[101] |
| A sand roller relative. | ![]() | ||
†Priscacara aquilonia[24] |
| ||||
Salmonidae | †Eosalmo | †Eosalmo driftwoodensis[24][108][20] |
| A basal Salmon | ![]() |
Cf. †Eosalmo driftwoodensis[17][28] |
| A basal Salmon |
Reptiles
The only reptile fossils known from the Okanagan highlands come from the Allenby Formation. A soft-shelled turtle is known from the "Ashnola shales" unit and unidentified turtle bone are known from the interbedded Princeton Chert. The soft shelled turtle was first discovered by James Basinger from dark shale layers above the chert and reported by Wilson (1982).[102] The unidentified turtle bones were found preserved within the chert layers and first reported by Stockey and Pigg (1994).[109] In his 1995 Masters thesis, G. Guthrie listed an isolated tooth from the Quilchena site as from a crocodile, which would have been the only instance of a crocodylian in the highlands.[28] The taxonomic affinity was later revised after further examination and Mathewes et al. (2016) listed the specimen as an unidentified fish tooth.[110]
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
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Cf. Apalone or Aspideretes | undescribed[102][111][22][20] |
| A soft shelled turtle | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed | undescribed[109] |
| A turtle, |
Birds
A small avifauna is known from the Okanagan Highlands, but due to the incomplete nature of the fossils, placement of studied specimens has been tentative at best.[112] Gerald Mayr et al. (2019) published an initial overview of the fossils with descriptions and commentary of the material, noting the taxa identified were all previously unknown to Northwestern North American Eocene sites. Despite the tentative nature of the fossil identifications, the Highlands sites are the richest Paleogene avifauna described from Canada. Mayr et al. (2019) posited that the fossils likely represent the more common species in the avifauna of the Highlands, but at the same time, include taxa that are considered rare or absent in the most studied avifaunas from the same time frame.[112] Additional evidence of birds at some sites consists of preserved egested bird pellets, which are composed of randomly grouped fish bone clumps, occasionally including multiple fish or insects.[28]
Isolated feathers are also known from several of the sites and have not described in detail.[112]
Order/Clade | Family | Material | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cf. Coliiformes[112] | indeterminate | partial skeleton |
| a large possible Coliiform, | |
Cf. Gaviiformes[112] | indeterminate | left wing and partial right wing, with feathers |
| a possible gaviiform, | |
Gruiformes[112] | articulated postcranial skeleton |
| A possible songziid bird, | ||
Psittacopasserae[112] | complete, but poorly preserved, skeleton |
| a possible zygodactylid, | ||
indeterminate[112] | indeterminate | partial skeletons |
| partial skeletons missing details for identification. | ![]() McAbee site |
indeterminate[17][28][20][112] | indeterminate | feathers |
| isolated feathers | ![]() |
Mammals
Eocene mammals are exclusively known from sites in, or possibly in, the Okanagan Highlands. The earliest reported mammals were of teeth from the Princeton area in 1935, with one of the fossils subsequently being "lost". More recent work in 2014 and 2017 on fossils from Driftwood and Princeton have expanded the mammal families to three, possibly four, and an undescribed Quilchena fossil being identified as a "lipotyphla".[113][5] The record of Brontotheriidae is uncertain due to the split opinion regarding inclusion of the Quesnel area sediments as part of the Highlands.[5][4][2]
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Erinaceidae | †Silvacola acares[113] |
| A hedgehog and moonrat relative | ||
†Entomolestes | undescribed[113][5] |
| An unidentified hedgehog relative, | ||
Esthonychidae | †Trogosus | †Trogosus latidens[114][102][5] |
| A tillodont species | |
†Trogosus sp.[5] |
| An indeterminate tillodont | |||
indeterminate[113] |
| ||||
undescribed | undescribed | undescribed[5] |
| A "lipotyphlan" |
Trace fossils
Pellets of fish bone and other animal material which were likely eaten by larger predators and then regurgitated have been reported from the Quilchena and Republic sites. These traces, called regurgitalites, have so far been understudied, with only a few passing mentions in Okanagan highlands literature.[112]
Quesnelian fauna
If the Quesnel sites are included as part of the Greater Okanagan Highlands per Archibald et al. (2018) the fauna of the region is expanded by a number of insect taxa, an additional arachnid, and a brontothere.
Arachnids
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
†Araneaovoius | †Araneaovoius columbiae[115] |
| An orb-web spider egg sack. | ![]() (1890 illustration |
Coleopterans
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
†Prometopia depilis[117] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) |
Dipterans
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
†Anthomyia burgessi[117][49] |
| An anthomyiid fly. | ![]() (1890 illustration) | ||
†Anthomyia inanimata[117] |
| An anthomyiid fly. | ![]() (1890 illustration) | ||
Undescribed | Undescribed[32] |
| An undescribed robber fly | ||
Undescribed[117] |
| An undescribed long-legged fly. | ![]() specimen 14651 (1890 illustration) | ||
†Heteromyza senilis[117] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) | |||
"Lonchaea" | †"Lonchaea" senescens[42] |
| A lauxaniid fly. First placed in Lonchaea[117] | ![]() (1890 illustration) | |
†Boletina sepulta[117] |
| A fungus gnat. | ![]() (1890 illustration) | ||
†Brachypeza abita[117] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) | |||
†Brachypeza procera[117] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) | |||
†Trichonta dawsoni[117] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) | |||
†Palloptera morticina[117] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) | |||
Sciara | †Sciara deperdita[116] |
| A sciarine dark-winged fungus gnat. | ![]() (1890 illustration) | |
†Sciomyza revelata[117] |
| A marsh fly. | ![]() (1890 illustration) | ||
†Lithortalis | †Lithortalis picta[117] |
| ![]() (1890 illustration) |
Hemipterans
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
†Teleoschistus | †Teleoschistus antiquus[49] |
| A shield bug | ![]() (1890 illustration) | |
Incertae sedis | †Geranchon | †Geranchon petrorum[49] |
| An aphidomorph of uncertain placement | ![]() (1890 illustration) |
incertae sedis | †Sbenaphis | †Sbenaphis quesneli[49] |
| An aphidoid of uncertain placement | ![]() (1890 illustration) |
Hymenopterans
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
†Aphaenogaster longaeva[117] |
| A myrmicine ant, possibly nomen dubium.[119] | ![]() (1890 illustration) | ||
†Calyptites | †Calyptites antediluvianum[117] |
| An ant of uncertain placement. | ![]() (1890 illustration) | |
†Dolichoderus obliteratus[120] |
| A dolichoderine ant | ![]() (1890 illustration) | ||
†Formica arcana[117] |
| A formicine ant | ![]() (1890 illustration) | ||
†Pimpla decessa[117] |
| A pimpline ichneumon parasitic wasp | ![]() (1890 illustration) | ||
†Pimpla saxea[117] |
| A pimpline ichneumon parasitic wasp | ![]() (1890 illustration) | ||
†Pimpla senecta[117] |
| A pimpline ichneumon parasitic wasp | ![]() (1890 illustration) |
Neuroptera
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
†Bothromicromus | †Bothromicromus lachlani[116] |
| A hemerobiid lacewing of uncertain subfamily placement | ![]() (1890 illustration) |
Mammals
Family | Genus | species | Sites | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
indeterminate | indeterminate[121] |
| A Brontotheriina subtribe Brontothere |
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