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)
• Repository: Formerly in private collection of P. Ernst and K. Nordmann, Skagen (Denmark). Now at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.
Primary reference: M. Kotrba. 2009. Prosphyracephala kerneggeri spec. nov. – a new stalk-eyed fly from Baltic amber. Spixiana 32:187-192 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123907: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Prosphyracephala succini Loew 1873 stalk-eyed fly | |
Doliopria baltica n. sp.1, Basalys villumi n. sp.1, Pantoclis globosa n. sp.1, Pantolyta similis n. sp.1, Pantolyta chemyrevae n. sp.1, Pantolyta augustinusii n. sp.1, Cinetus elongatus n. sp.1, Cinetus breviscapus n. sp.1, Belyta knudhoejgaardi n. sp.1, Spilomicrus succinalis n. sp.1
Pantolyta augustinusii n. sp.1 Brazidec and Vilhelmsen 2022 wasp NHMD-300829, 608391, 608404, 608406, 608412
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Custodela tibialis n. sp.6
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