Where: Romania (45.4° N, 26.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 22.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Although found in Oligocene rocks, Romanian amber (rumanite) is thermally-altered Baltic amber (Stout et al., 2000).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified amber

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts, amber

Collection methods: Repository: Laboratoire de Mineralogie, University of Cluj.

Primary reference: O. Parent. 1936. Un diptère dolichopodide fossile de l'ambre de Roumanie. Revue Française d’Entomologique 3:211-213 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163213: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.10.2014

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