Where: Kaliningrad, Russian Federation (54.9° N, 19.9° E: paleocoordinates 53.9° N, 15.2° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
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 classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: amber
Collection methods: surface (float)
• Repository: Insect Collection of the Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China (SNUC)
Primary reference: Z. W. Yin and C. Y. Cai. 2018. A new fossil species of Euroleptochromus Jałoszyński (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa 4500:146-150 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197073: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.10.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Euroleptochromus tuberculatus n. sp., Europharinodes schaufussi n. gen. n. sp.
Euroleptochromus tuberculatus n. sp. Yin and Cai 2018 antlike stone beetle SNUC-Paleo-0046; SNUC-Paleo-0018 in Chen & Yin 2023
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