Where: Gujarat, India (21.4° N, 73.1° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 63.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Age 50-52 Ma based on microfossils
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber
Reposited in the AMNH
• Material collected in January 2009, 2010, and 2011 and split among BSIPL, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, India; AMNH, American Museum of Natural History, New York, and SEMC, Snow Entomological Collections, Division of Entomology, University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence. Type material is presently in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA (AMNH) and the Steinmann Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie, und Paläontologie, Bonn, Germany (SIPB), but primary types will eventually be transferred to the amber collection of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, India
Primary reference: M. S. Engel, D. A. Grimaldi, H. Singh and P. C. Nascimbene. 2011. Webspinners in early Eocene amber from western India (Insecta: Embiodea). ZooKeys 148:197-208 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124463: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Paracharonopsis cambayensis n. gen. n. sp.2
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Insecta | |
Archaesalepta schuhi n. gen. n. sp.5
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Normarkicoccus cambayae n. gen. n. sp.16
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Heteromargarodes hukamsinghi n. sp.16
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Kumarembia hurleyi n. gen. n. sp.
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Nanotermes isaacae n. gen. n. sp.3
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Trichelyon tadkeshwarense n. gen. n. sp.10
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Melikertini indet.4, Melikertes (Paramelikertes) gujaratensis n. sp.4, Melikertes (Melikertes) kamboja n. sp.4, ? Protobombus sp.4
Melikertes (Melikertes) kamboja n. sp.4 Engel and Ortega-Blanco 2013 bee AMNH Tad-272-A, STB-092-T10
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Spiloconis eominuta n. sp.6
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Cambaltica paleoindica n. gen. n. sp.8, Davidaltica cambayensis n. gen. n. sp.8, Protorthaltica setosella n. gen. n. sp.8
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Protoclaviger trichodens n. gen. n. sp.12, Yprezethinus grimaldii n. gen. n. sp.11, Paleosorius cambayensis n. gen. n. sp.9
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Stempellina stebneri n. sp.19, Stempellinella pollex n. sp.19, Tanytarsus spp.19, Tanytarsus forfex n. sp.19, Tanytarsus ramus n. sp.19, Gujaratomyia miripes n. gen. n. sp.20
Gujaratomyia miripes n. gen. n. sp.20 Giłka and Zakrzewska 2018 non biting midge BSIP Tad-607a, b; Tad610 in Zakrzewska et al., 2020
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Sycorax longistyla n. sp.17
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Ceratopogonidae indet.14, Leptoconops sp.14, Forcipomyia sp.14, Gedanohelea gerdesorum n. sp.14, Mantohelea sp.14, Brachypogon sp.14, Meunierohelea borkenti n. sp.14, Meunierohelea cambayana n. sp.14, Meunierohelea aff. cambayana14, Meunierohelea orientalis n. sp.14, Eohelea indica n. sp.14, Camptopterohelea odora n. sp.15, Serromyia sp.14, Stilobezzia sp.14
Forcipomyia sp.14 Meigen 1818 biting midge AMNH Tad-163, 511a, 511b, 565, 602, 616a, 643, 856, 860, 862a
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Dolichopodidae indet.1, Palaeomedeterus sp.1, Palaeomedeterus cambayensis n. sp.1, Gujaratmyia rotunda n. gen. n. sp.1, Sympycninae indet.1, Medeterinae indet.1, Rajpardia grimaldii n. gen. n. sp.1, Diaphorinae indet.1
Palaeomedeterus cambayensis n. sp.1 Bickel 2022 long-legged fly AMNH Tad-476B, 124, 165, 448, 476A, 483; KU 173A
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Pareuthychaeta eoindica n. sp.7
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Palaeognoriste orientale n. sp.13, Indorrhina sahnii n. gen. n. sp.13, Lygistorrhina indica n. sp.13
Palaeognoriste orientale n. sp.13 Stebner and Grimaldi 2017 long beaked fungus gnat BSIP Tad-887, AMNH Tad-587, Tad-37A, Tad-324
Lygistorrhina indica n. sp.13 Stebner and Grimaldi 2017 long beaked fungus gnat BSIP Tad-442, AMNH Tad-492, Tad-888
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