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
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Succinipatopsis balticus n. gen. n. sp.
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Insecta | |
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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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Megalyra baltica n. sp.18
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"Neoneurinae indet." = Neoneurini17
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Palaeomyrmecolax aff. succineus3, "Stylops neotropicallis n. sp." = Palaeomyrmecolax neotropicallis3
"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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Archaeosciaphilus gyrommatus n. sp.5, Electrotribus theryi4, Caulophilus sucinopunctatus4, Synommatodes patruelis4
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Succinometrioxena attenuata n. sp.4
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Omositoidea pubescens n. sp.2
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Cacomorphocerus endecacerus n. sp.16, "Rhagonycha sucinobaltica n. sp." = Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) sucinobaltica15
"Rhagonycha sucinobaltica n. sp." = Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) sucinobaltica15 Poinar and Fanti 2016 soldier beetle Poinar C-202
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Enoplea | |
Psychodorhabditis balticus n. sp.11, Palaeorhabditis balticus n. gen. n. sp.11, Tipulacomis balticus n. gen. n. sp.11
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Cascofilaria baltica n. gen. n. sp.11
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Tripius balticus n. sp.11
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Palaeoallantonema baltica n. sp.11, Palaeoallantonema zygopinae n. sp.11, Howardula helenoschini n. sp.9
Howardula helenoschini n. sp.9 Poinar 2003 | |
Palaeoaphelenchoides balticus n. gen. n. sp.11
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Palaeotetradonema sciarae n. sp.11
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Heydenius cecidomyae n. sp.11, Heydenius sciarophilus n. sp.11, Heydenius quadristriatus11, Heydenius formicinus n. sp.7, Heydenius podenasae n. sp.12, Heydenius brownii n. sp.6, Heydenius matutinus11, Heydenius simulphilus n. sp.14
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"Palaeosoma balticus n. gen. n. sp." = Micropalaeosoma balticus8
"Palaeosoma balticus n. gen. n. sp." = Micropalaeosoma balticus8 Poinar 2003 |