Baltic Amber, ANSP collection (Eocene of Russian Federation)

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

Reposited in the ANSP

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia PA

Primary reference: S. Podenas. 2006. Rhabdomastix Crane Flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) in Baltic Amber (Eocene). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 155:41-66 [M. Clapham/A. Noshirvan/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124503: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Arram Noshirvan on 16.02.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
"Paleopissodes weigangae n. gen. n. sp." = Electrotribus theryi11
"Paleopissodes weigangae n. gen. n. sp." = Electrotribus theryi11 Hustache 1942 snout beetle
ANSP 8254 (90 feet below surface from amber mine at Palmnicken)
 Diptera - Ptychopteridae
Ptychoptera (Ptychoptera) eocenica n. sp.10 Podenas 2007 phantom crane fly
ANSP 80344
 Diptera - Cylindrotomidae
Diogma gelhausi n. sp.2 Podenas 2000 long bodied crane fly
ANSP 79953
 Diptera - Tipulidae
Dolichopeza (Oropeza) dzindra7 Podenas 2003 crane fly
ANSP 80057
 Diptera - Limoniidae
Dactylolabis (Idiolabis) christelae6 Krzemiński 2000 crane fly
ANSP 80098
Dactylolabis (Dactylolabis) amberifis n. sp.8 Podenas 2005 crane fly
ANSP 80302
Dactylolabis (Eobothrophorus) alna6 Podenas 2003 crane fly
ANSP 79978
Dactylolabis (Aurolabis) labis6 Podenas 2003 crane fly
ANSP 80144
Dactylolabis (Eolabis) latusta n. sp.6 Podenas 2003 crane fly
ANSP 80068
Dactylolabis (Eolabis) ambustus8 Podenas 2005 crane fly
ANSP 80300, 79925
Dactylolabis (Eolabis) vetusta6 Alexander 1931 crane fly
ANSP 79987
Helius linus n. sp.4 Podenas 2002 crane fly
ANSP 79961
Trentepohlia (Onutia) damzeni n. sp.5 Podenas 2003 crane fly
ANSP 80130, ANSP 80106
Rhabdomastix pulcherrima Meunier 1906 crane fly
ANSP 79923, ANSP 79924, ANSP 79946, ANSP 79965, ANSP 79976, ANSP 80033, ANSP 80045, ANSP 80050, ANSP 80156, ANSP 80157, ANSP 80158, ANSP 80159, ANSP 80160, ANSP 80161, ANSP 80162, ANSP 80163, ANSP 80164, ANSP 80165, ANSP 80166, ANSP 80167, ANSP 80168, ANSP 80169, ANSP 80170, ANSP 80171, ANSP 80175, ANSP 80176, ANSP 80177, ANSP 80305, ANSP 80306, ANSP 80307, ANSP 80320, ANSP 8027, ANSP 80328, ANSP 80330
Rhabdomastix (Rhabdomastix) lutix n. sp. Podenas 2006 crane fly
ANSP 80194
Rhabdomastix (Rhabdomastix) elegantula Meunier 1906 crane fly
ANSP 79936, ANSP 79968, ANSP 80079, ANSP 80178, ANSP 80179, ANSP 80180, ANSP 80181, ANSP 80182, ANSP 80183, ANSP 80184, ANSP 80185, ANSP 80186, ANSP 80187, ANSP 80188, ANSP 80316,
Rhabdomastix brevis Alexander 1931 crane fly
ANSP 79926, ANSP 80189, ANSP 80310, ANSP 80329
Rhabdomastix redophilax n. sp. Podenas 2006 crane fly
ANSP 80191, 79922, 80190, 80192
Rhabdomastix (Lurdia) ratix n. sp. Podenas 2006 crane fly
ANSP 80197
Rhabdomastix mastix n. sp. Podenas 2006 crane fly
ANSP 80195
Rhabdomastix borussica Meunier 1906 crane fly
ANSP 80055, ANSP 80077, ANSP 80078, ANSP 80150, ANSP 80151, ANSP 80153, ANSP 80154, ANSP 80155, ANSP 80172, ANSP 80173, ANSP 80174, ANSP 80308, ANSP 80315, ANSP 80322
Rhabdomastix grussica n. sp. Podenas 2006 crane fly
ANSP 80193, ANSP 80196
Ormosia (Oreophila) skwarrae1 Alexander 1931 crane fly
ANSP 79845, 79846, 79847
Ormosia (Oreophila) beurleni1 Alexander 1931 crane fly
ANSP 79844
Ormosia (Oreophila) divina1 Podenas 1999 crane fly
ANSP 79843
Idiocera adocera n. sp.9 Podenas 2006 crane fly
ANSP 79962, ANSP 79934, ANSP 80333, ANSP 80334
Idiocera acera n. sp.9 Podenas 2006 crane fly
ANSP 80107
 Diptera - Pediciidae
Tricyphona lepesca3 Podenas 2001 hairy-eyed cranefly
ANSP 79966
Tricyphona aurata n. sp.3 Podenas 2001 hairy-eyed cranefly
ANSP 79948
Tricyphona residua3 Podenas 2001 hairy-eyed cranefly
ANSP 80064