Baltic Amber (Prague Museum NMPC collection) (Eocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Kaliningrad, Russian Federation (54.9° N, 19.9° E: paleocoordinates 53.9° N, 15.2° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• According to Aleksandrova and Zaporozhets (2008), the higher parts of the Prussian Formation (including the Blaue Erde or Blue Earth) belong to the Charlesdowniea clathrata angulosa dinocyst Zone. Based on its index species, this zone is concurrent to Zone W13 established in the Parisian basin (Châteauneuf and Gruas-Cavagnetto 1978), where it is correlated with nannoplankton zones NP18–NP21 (Powell, 1992) of the Priabonian. In the Paleogene zonation of northwestern Europe, the first occurrence of Thalassiphora fenestrata is designated at the base of the dinocyst Subzone D12b (36.20 +/- 0.1 Ma), which is correlated with zones NP18 (terminal part)–NP20 of the Priabonian (Luterbacher et al., 2004).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: amber

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: J. S. Presl. 1822. Additamenta ad faunam protogaem, sistens descriptiones aliquot animalium in succino inclusorum. In J. S. Presl, C. B. Presl (eds.), Deliciae Pragenses, Historiam Naturalem Spectantes 191-210 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124194: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.02.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Dascillidae
Baltodascillus serraticornis n. gen. n. sp.1 Kundrata et al. 2021 soft bodied plant beetle
NMPC NM-T 3470
 Coleoptera - Ptilodactylidae
Ptilodactyla eocenica n. sp.2 Kundrata et al. 2021 beetle
NMPC NM-T 3472
 Lepidoptera - Tineidae
Tinea antiqua n. sp. Presl 1822 moth
 Trichoptera - Helicopsychidae
Palaeohelicopsyche serricornis4 Ulmer 1912 snail-case caddisfly
Nr. 34
 Trichoptera - Polycentropodidae
Plectrocnemia barbata4 Pictet and Hagen 1856 caddisfly
Nr. 60
 Hymenoptera - Cynipidae
Cynips succinea n. sp. Presl 1822 wasp
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Formica trigona n. sp. Presl 1822 ant
Formica parvula n. sp. Presl 1822 ant
Formica nigra n. sp. Presl 1822 ant
Formica luteola n. sp. Presl 1822 ant
Formica gibbosa n. sp. Presl 1822 ant
Formica macrognatha n. sp. Presl 1822 ant
 Blattodea - Kalotermitidae
Electrotermes affinis3 Hagen 1856 termite
NMP T3532
 Diptera - Tipulidae
Tipula curvicornis n. sp. Presl 1822 crane fly
Tipula protogaea n. sp. Presl 1822 crane fly
Tipula antiqua n. sp. Presl 1822 crane fly
 Diptera -
Musca longipes n. sp., Musca venosa n. sp., Musca setosa n. sp., Musca resinosa n. sp.
Musca longipes n. sp. Presl 1822 fly
Musca venosa n. sp. Presl 1822 fly
Musca setosa n. sp. Presl 1822 fly
Musca resinosa n. sp. Presl 1822 fly
Arachnida
 Acari -
Acarus resinosus n. sp. Presl 1822 mite
 Araneae - Theridiidae
"Aranea oblonga n. sp." = Theridion oblongum, "Aranea globosa n. sp." = Theridion globosus
"Aranea oblonga n. sp." = Theridion oblongum Presl 1822 cobweb spider
"Aranea globosa n. sp." = Theridion globosus Presl 1822 cobweb spider
 Opiliones -
Phalangium succineum n. sp. Presl 1822 harvestman