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
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Anochetus miosumatrensis n. sp.
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