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
Collection methods: surface (float)
• Specimens in collection of George Poinar at Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis.
Primary reference: G. Poinar. 2000. Fossil onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n. g., n. sp. (Tertiapatidae n. fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n. g., n. sp. (Succinipatopsidae n. fam.) with a proposed classification of the subphylum Onychophora. Invertebrate Biology 119:104-109 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 125139: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Arram Noshirvan on 05.03.2012, edited by Sarah Tweedt and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Enoplea | |
Cascofilaria baltica n. gen. n. sp.11
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Palaeoaphelenchoides balticus n. gen. n. sp.11
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Palaeoallantonema zygopinae n. sp.11, Palaeoallantonema baltica n. sp.11, Howardula helenoschini n. sp.9
Howardula helenoschini n. sp.9 Poinar 2003 | |
Tripius balticus n. sp.11
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Tipulacomis balticus n. gen. n. sp.11, Psychodorhabditis balticus n. sp.11, Palaeorhabditis balticus n. gen. n. sp.11
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Palaeotetradonema sciarae n. sp.11
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Heydenius simulphilus n. sp.14, Heydenius sciarophilus n. sp.11, Heydenius cecidomyae n. sp.11, Heydenius quadristriatus11, Heydenius matutinus11, Heydenius podenasae n. sp.12, Heydenius formicinus n. sp.7, Heydenius brownii n. sp.6
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Myriapoda | |
Succinipatopsis balticus n. gen. n. sp.
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Insecta | |
"Stylops neotropicallis n. sp." = Palaeomyrmecolax neotropicallis3, Palaeomyrmecolax aff. succineus3
"Stylops neotropicallis n. sp." = Palaeomyrmecolax neotropicallis3 Kogan and Poinar 2010 twisted-winged parasite Poinar D-1-11 (actually from Baltic amber, not Dominican; Kogan et al., 2015)
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Omositoidea pubescens n. sp.2
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Succinometrioxena attenuata n. sp.4
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Electrotribus theryi4, Caulophilus sucinopunctatus4, Synommatodes patruelis4, Archaeosciaphilus gyrommatus n. sp.5
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"Rhagonycha sucinobaltica n. sp." = Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) sucinobaltica15, Cacomorphocerus endecacerus n. sp.16
"Rhagonycha sucinobaltica n. sp." = Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) sucinobaltica15 Poinar and Fanti 2016 soldier beetle Poinar C-202
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"Neoneurinae indet." = Neoneurini17
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Megalyra baltica n. sp.18
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Paleogenia wahisi n. gen. n. sp.19
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Palaeovespa socialis n. sp.10
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Eotrigonalis balticus n. gen. n. sp.10
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"Palaeosoma balticus n. gen. n. sp." = Micropalaeosoma balticus8
"Palaeosoma balticus n. gen. n. sp." = Micropalaeosoma balticus8 Poinar 2003 |