Where: Italy (37.4° N, 15.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 14.8° 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

Collection methods: Repository: private collection of Anastasi and Giuseppe Avolio

Primary reference: L. Roussy. 1960. Insectes et abeilles fossiles de l'ambre de Sicile. Migrations, localisations, peuplement du Nouveau Monde, de l'Australie, de la Nouvelle Zélande. La Gazette Apicole 61(635):5-8 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164666: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.12.2014

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