Where: Kaliningrad, Russian Federation (54.9° N, 19.9° E: paleocoordinates 53.9° N, 15.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-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
Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber
Collection methods: From K. M. Sadilenko's personal collection in Moscow
Primary reference: M. V. Kozlov. 1987. New Moth-Like Lepidoptera from the Baltic Amber. Paleontological Journal 21(4):56-65 [M. Clapham/L. Edwards]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123978: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Lindy Edwards on 04.02.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Tortricites sadilenkoi n. sp." = Paleolepidopterites sadilenkoi
"Tortricites sadilenkoi n. sp." = Paleolepidopterites sadilenkoi Kozlov 1988 moth K. M. Sadilenko collection 4
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Gracillariites mixtus n. sp.
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Microperittia probosciphera n. gen. n. sp., Praemendesia minima n. gen. n. sp., Palaeoelachista traugottolseni, Elachistites sukatshevae n. sp., Elachistites inclusus n. sp.
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"Tineites sucinacius n. sp." = Tineitella sucinacius, Palaeotinea rasnitsyni n. gen. n. sp.
"Tineites sucinacius n. sp." = Tineitella sucinacius Kozlov 1987 moth K. M. Sadilenko collection 5-2-1
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"Stigmellites balticus n. sp." = Stigmellites baltica
"Stigmellites balticus n. sp." = Stigmellites baltica Kozlov 1988 moth K. M. Sadilenko collection 15-1-4
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