Baltic amber, east coast of England (BMNH coll) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.6° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 51.2° N, 2.4° W)

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 class: mesofossils

Preservation: amber

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. Petrunkevitch. 1958. Amber Spiders in European Collections. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 41:97-400 [M. Clapham/A. Louderback]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149851: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.08.2013

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Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Araneae - Theridiidae
"Flegia succini" = Pseudoteutana stigmatosa
"Flegia succini" = Pseudoteutana stigmatosa Koch and Berendt 1854 cobweb spider