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References: Verschoor, K. van R. 1974. Paleobotany of the Tertiary (early Middle Eocene) McAbee Beds, British Columbia. M.Sc. thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, 128 p. Link: Richard M. Dillhoff, Estella B. Leopold, and Steven R. Manchester (2005): The McAbee flora of British Columbia and its relation to the Early–Middle Eocene Okanagan Highlands flora of the Pacific Northwest. Can. J. Earth Sci. 42: 151–166. Greenwood, D.R.; Pigg, K.B.; Basinger, J.F.; DeVore, M.L. (2016). "A review of paleobotanical studies of the Early Eocene Okanagan (Okanogan) Highlands floras of British Columbia, Canada and Washington, USA". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 53 (6): 548–564. doi:10.1139/cjes-2015-0177. Link: Alex Lowe ,Christopher K. West, Markus Sudermann, and David Robert Greenwood (2017): MILLENNIAL-SCALE PLANT COMMUNITY AND CLIMATE DYNAMICS AT THE ONSET OF THE EARLY EOCENE CLIMATIC OPTIMUM, MCABEE FOSSIL BEDS, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA. Conference: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting At: Seattle, Washington, USA
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these and others I collected from a remote site near Kamloops; NOT McAbee, 5 years ago but with the new BC regulations which I'm still trying to figure out, I suppose this exposure is going to crumble away as the way I interpret them, I shouldn't be collecting any more from here or anywhere without there being a government scientist in attendance supervising.
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Today, the family Hiodontiadae is represented by two species and a single genus (Hiodon) restricted to North America. They are large-eyed, fork-tailed fish that physically resemble shads. The “goldeye”, Hiodon alosoides, is widespread across Nord America. It prefers turbid slower-moving waters of lakes and rivers. The mooneye, Hiodon tergisus, is also widespread across North America, living in the clear waters of lakes, ponds, and rivers. Hiodontids feed mainly on insects, insect larvae, and a few small fish. The fossil genus Eohiodon was set up by Cavender in 1966 based on a review of Leuciscus rosei by Hussakof. Since then, three additional species have been included in this genus: Eohiodon rosei is the type species and known from the Tranquille beds near Kamloops, the Horsefly beds near Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada and the Allenby Formation near Princeton. Eohiodon woodruffi Wilson 1978 is known from the Klondike Mountain Formation near Republic, Washington and the Horsefly beds near Horsefly, British Columbia. Eohiodon falcatus Grande 1978 has been found from the Fossil Butte Member of the Green River Formation, Lincoln County, Wyoming, USA. Recent study by Li, Wilson, and Grande, 1997 of new specimen of both Eohiodon falcatus and Eohiodon woodruffi indicates that the two specimens are indistinguishable in the vast majority of characters; Eohiodon falcatus might be treated as a junior synonym of Eohiodon woodruffi. In their 2008 paper L. Grande and E. Hilton reassessed the Hiodontidae and concluded: " After correcting the descriptions of the fossil taxa, we could find no valid synapomorphies to separate the genus †Eohiodon from the genus Hiodon. Therefore, we conclude that †Eohiodon should be regarded as a synonym of Hiodon." Grande, L. 1979. Eohiodon falcatus, a new species of hiodontid (Pisces) from the late early Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology, 53:103-111. Wilson, M. V. H. 1978. Eohiodon woodruffi n. sp. (Teleostei, Hiodontidae) from the middle Eocene Klondike Mountain Formation near Republic, Washington. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 15:679-686. Cavender, T. 1966. Systematic position of the North American Eocene fish, "Leuciscus" rosei Hussakof. Copeia, 1966:311-320.
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Hi! I just moved to Vernon BC from Merritt, and from Kamloops before that. I have been an avid rock hound and fossil hunter for many years and have often found myself on this site while in pursuit of answers to my oft asked query "What is this thing?" I have only been in Vernon a couple of weeks so I have yet to find any good digging... Also it is December... But I have had a lot of luck in both Merritt and Kamloops and look forward to comparing samples and learning from you all!