Where: Italy (37.7° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 14.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Some propose an Oligocene age, or Upper Miocene to perhaps Pliocene. Found in place in Upper Miocene to Lower Pliocene sediments of central Sicily (Kohring & Schluter, 1989).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original chitin, amber

Collected by Schluter

• Repository: Freie Universität Berlin

Primary reference: R. Kohring and T. Schlüter. 1989. Historische und paläontologische Bestandsaufnahme des Simetits, eines fossilen Harzes mutmaßlich mio/pliozänen Alters aus Sizilien. Documenta Naturae 56:33-58 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160007: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.08.2014

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