Where: Ukraine (51.6° N, 27.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 45.0° N, 29.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Likely roughly contemporaneous with late Eocene Baltic amber

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Repository: Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kiev)

Primary reference: G. Y. Lyubarsky, A. A. Legalov, D. V. Vasilenko and E. E. Perkovsky. 2024. Two new silken fungus beetle species (Coleoptera, Cucujiformia, Cryptophagidae) from Rovno amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 73:90-99 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234940: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.05.2024

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