Sumatran amber, Sinamar area (Pouillon collection) (Miocene of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (1.3° N, 101.7° E: paleocoordinates 0.3° S, 105.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Supposedly Miocene in age (15-25 Mya) (De Smet& Barber 2005).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: amber

Collection methods: Repository: collection of Jean-Marc Pouillon

Primary reference: V. Ngô-Muller, R. Garrouste, T. Schubnel, J. M. Pouillon, V. Christophersen, A. Christophersen, and A. Nel. 2021. The first representative of the trap-jaw ant genus Anochetus Mayr, 1861 in Neogene amber from Sumatra (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Comptes Rendus Palevol 20(2):21-27 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 217036: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.01.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Anochetus miosumatrensis n. sp. Ngô-Muller et al. 2021 ant
JMP2362
 Diptera - Limoniidae
Trentepohlia (Mongoma) pouilloni n. sp. Ngô-Muller et al. 2019 crane fly
JMP 2365