Baltic amber, Yantarny (Háva collection) (Eocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Kaliningrad, Russian Federation (54.9° N, 19.9° E: paleocoordinates 53.9° N, 15.2° E)

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: amber

Collected by Jiri Hava

• Specimens in collection of Jiří Háva, Private Entomological Laboratory and Collection, Únětice u Prahy, Czech Republic

Primary reference: J. Háva, J. Prokop, and A. Herrmann. 2008. New fossil dermestid beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from the Baltic amber – III. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 71:151-157 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124202: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.02.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Amberophlus niger n. gen. n. sp.6
Amberophlus niger n. gen. n. sp.6 Novák and Háva 2019 comb-clawed beetle
JHAC ALE1/2018
 Coleoptera - Dermestidae
Ranolus hrdlickai n. sp.2 Háva 2023 skin beetle
JHAC JH1_23
Trinodes puetzi4 Háva and Prokop 2006 skin beetle
Attagenus hoffeinsorum Háva et al. 2006 skin beetle
JHAC 109/2003
Trogoderma larvalis2 Háva et al. 2006 skin beetle
JHAC JDC9692
"Globicornis ambericus" = Globicornis (Hadrotoma) ambericus3 Háva et al. 2006 skin beetle
JHAC C 7852
 Coleoptera - Ptinidae
Petalium bruteno1 Alekseev and Bukejs 2021 spider beetle
JHAC PET01
Ptinus (Gynopterus) scalovicus5 Alekseev 2014 spider beetle
JHAC C7743
Ptinus (Gynopterus) burukovskyi5 Alekseev 2014 spider beetle
JHAC C7808