Where: Burlington County, New Jersey (40.1° N, 74.8° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 50.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Work by Grimaldi (1999) considers the age of this formation to be Late Maastrichtian.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, amber

Collected by A. C. Hawkins in the 1920s-1930s; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• probably collected in 1920s or 1930s; collector Alfred C. Hawkins

Primary reference: C. D. Michener and D. A. Grimaldi. 1988. A Trigona from Late Cretaceous Amber of New Jersey (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae). American Museum Novitates 2917:1-10 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 109025: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.05.2011, edited by Briony Mamo

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