Where: Gujarat, India (21.4° N, 73.1° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° S, 63.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Reposited in the AMNH

• Material collected in January 2009, 2010, and 2011 and split among BSIPL, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, India; AMNH, American Museum of Natural History, New York, and SEMC, Snow Entomological Collections, Division of Entomology, University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence. Type material is presently in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA (AMNH) and the Steinmann Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie, und Paläontologie, Bonn, Germany (SIPB), but primary types will eventually be transferred to the amber collection of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, India

Primary reference: F. Stebner, R. Szadziewski, H. Singh, S. Gunkel, and J. Rust. 2017. Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Cambay amber indicate that the Eocene fauna of the Indian subcontinent was not isolated. PLoS One 12(1):e0169144 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183742: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2017

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