Where: Jordan (32.1° N, 35.5° E: paleocoordinates 8.6° N, 29.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Amber Member of the Subeihi Formation. Further west of the Zerqa river a horizon within the Amber Member or basal Jerash Member has been dated by the occurrence of the ammonite genus Knemiceras as of Albian age (Wetzel & Morton, 1959). Investigations of the sporomorph fauna from the Amber Member support these data (Al-Said & Mustafa, 1994).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Specimens in Geologisch-Palaeontologisches Institut und Museum der Universitat Hamburg

Primary reference: R. Szadziewski. 2000. Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Jordan. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 69:251-256 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124848: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.02.2012

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