Where: Tanzania (6.9° S, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 6.9° S, 39.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Giebel and some later workers considered this to be Baltic amber, but Hennig (1966) demonstrated that the inclusions were extant east African species and argued that the provenance was from copal instead. Spectroscopic analysis demonstrates that "it is clear that the samples of copal containing Lomatia and Tachina are from a leguminous source. In fact, the resin probably is from a species of Trachylobium which occurs in East Africa. It is somewhat similar to Copaifera which produces the West African copals. However, resin from Trachylobium appears more similar than those from Copaifera." (White, 1977)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, amber

Collection methods: Repository: Naturkunde-Museum Coburg

Primary reference: C. Giebel. 1862. Wirbelthier und Insektenreste im Bernstein. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaft 20:311-321 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129861: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Raghav Sehtia on 29.06.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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