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
Reposited in the PIN
• In the collections of the Paleontological Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow - apparently not one of the numbered PIN Baltic amber collections.
Primary reference: N. J. Kuznetsov. 1941. Cheshuekrylye Yantarya 1-136 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124849: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Electrocrania immensipalpa n. gen. n. sp.
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Oegoconiites borisjaki n. gen. n. sp., Symmocites rohdendorfi n. gen. n. sp.
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"Paraborkhausenites innominatus n. sp." = Oecophorinites innominatus, Glesseumeyrickia henrikseni n. gen. n. sp.
"Paraborkhausenites innominatus n. sp." = Oecophorinites innominatus Kuznetsov 1941 moth Preparation No 11
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Prolyonetia cockerelli n. gen. n. sp.
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Tillyardinea eocaenica n. gen. n. sp., Dysmasiites carpenteri n. gen. n. sp., Martynea rebeli n. gen. n. sp., Glessoscardia gerasimovi n. gen. n. sp., Proscardiites martynovi n. gen. n. sp., Scardiites meyricki n. gen. n. sp., Palaeoscardiites mordvilkoi n. gen. n. sp.
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Blacus verticalis n. sp.5, Ascogaster rutilipes n. sp.5, Ascogaster thoracica n. sp.5, Ascogaster adentata n. sp.5, Ascogaster longicauda n. sp.5, Semionis nixoni n. sp.5, Oncometeorus aduncus n. gen. n. sp.5, Meteorus interstitialis5, Prosyntretus calcaratus n. gen. n. sp.5, Acampsohelcon rasnitzini n. gen. n. sp.5, Diospilites brevicornis5
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Palaeofigites balticus n. gen. n. sp.4
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Newsteadia succini n. sp.3
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Palaeomedeterus bifurcatus2 Meunier 1907 long-legged fly numbers 93, 97, 209, 343, 467, 492, 514 (males), 151, 236 (females)
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Eolinus samlandica n. sp.10
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