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 | |
"Flegia succini" = Pseudoteutana stigmatosa
"Flegia succini" = Pseudoteutana stigmatosa Koch and Berendt 1854 cobweb spider |