Priabona (Monte Di Malo)
Priabona may refer to: * Priabona (fly), a fossil genus of big-headed flies * Priabona (Monte di Malo), the northern Italy type locality of the Priabonian stratigraphic stage {{Disambiguation ...
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Priabona (fly)
''Priabona'' is an extinct genus of big-headed flies in the dipteran subfamily Nephrocerinae, within which it is one of only two genera. The genus contains a single described species, ''Priabona florissantius''. ''Priabona'' is known from a single Late Eocene fossil from western North America. History and classification ''Priabona'' is known from a compression-impression fossil preserved in fine shale of the Florissant Formation in Colorado. The formation is composed of successive lake deposits which have preserved a diverse assemblage of insects. The insects and plants suggest a climate similar to modern Southeastern North America, with a number of taxa represented that are now found in the subtropics to tropics and confined to the Old World. When ''Priabona'' was described, the Florissant formation was considered to be Miocene in age, based on the flora and fauna preserved. Subsequent research and fossil descriptions permitted a re-examined dating, and by 1985 the form ...
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