Baltic amber (MCZ collection): Priabonian, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Arachnida - Araneae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7751
Arachnida - Araneae - Archaeidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7148(129)
Arachnida - Araneae - Oecobiidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7127(3617)
Arachnida - Araneae - Dictynidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7453
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7641b(2984)
Arachnida - Araneae - Zoropsidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7223
Arachnida - Araneae - Ephalmatoridae
Petrunkevitch 1950 2 specimens
MCZ 7882
Arachnida - Araneae - Salticidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 5 specimens
MCZ 7269(113)
Petrunkevitch 1950 6 specimens
MCZ 7284, 7276, 7324, 7284, 7276, 7324, 7138
Arachnida - Araneae - Trochanteriidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7662
Arachnida - Araneae - Philodromidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7624
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7441
Arachnida - Araneae - Sparassidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7139
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7221
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7997a
Arachnida - Araneae - Cybaeidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 6803
Arachnida - Araneae - Toxopidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
Arachnida - Araneae - Mimetidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 1289
Arachnida - Araneae - Synotaxidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7707a
Petrunkevitch 1950 2 specimens
MCZ 7002, 7127a
Petrunkevitch 1950 5 specimens
MCZ 7189
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7439
Arachnida - Araneae - Araneidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 2 specimens
MCZ 7444, 6368
Petrunkevitch 1950 3 specimens
MCZ 7445, 8213, 7953
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7137
Petrunkevitch 1950 2 specimens
MCZ 8219, 8022
Arachnida - Araneae - Theridiidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 6899(548)
Petrunkevitch 1950 2 specimens
MCZ 7183, 7225
Arachnida - Araneae - Linyphiidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 8519
Arachnida - Araneae - Pisauridae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 9741
Arachnida - Araneae - Thomisidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 7661
Petrunkevitch 1950 4 specimens
MCZ 7751a, 7432, 7704, 7192
Arachnida - Araneae - Segestriidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 4 specimens
MCZ 7436, 8500, 7174, 9761
Petrunkevitch 1950 4 specimens
MCZ 7336b, 7180, 6784, 6789
Arachnida - Araneae - Dysderidae
Petrunkevitch 1950 1 specimen
MCZ 8241
Arachnida - Araneae - Oonopidae
Wunderlich 1981 2 specimens
MCZ 7610(4676), 1484b
Petrunkevitch 1950 13 specimens
Arachnida - Araneae
Petrunkevitch 1950 3 specimens
MCZ 7030, 7648, 7176
Insecta - Hemiptera - Tingidae
Drake 1950 1 specimen
Insecta - Hemiptera
Usinger 1942 3 specimens
MCZ 4639, 4640, 4641
Usinger 1942 1 specimen
MCZ 4642
Insecta - Hemiptera - Aradidae
Usinger 1941 1 specimen
MCZ 4635
Usinger 1941 1 specimen
MCZ 4634
Insecta - Blattodea - Kalotermitidae
Emerson 1969 5 specimens
MCZ 9740, 9776, 9780, 9781, 9788
Insecta - Hymenoptera
Brues 1940 1 specimen
MCZ 8164
Brues 1940 1 specimen
MCZ 8165 (1 measurement)
Brues 1940 2 specimens
MCZ 8160, 8161 (1 measurement)
Brues 1940 2 specimens
MCZ 8144, 8145 (1 measurement)
Brues 1940 24 specimens
MCZ 8162, 8163, numerous others (1 measurement)
Brues 1940 11 specimens
Brues 1940 1 specimen
Brues 1940 1 specimen
MCZ 8095 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Sparasionidae
Brues 1940 11 specimens
MCZ 8149-8159; 5493, 5494 in Johnson et al. 2008 (1 measurement)
Brues 1940 1 specimen
MCZ 8148
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Neuroscelionidae
Brues 1940 1 specimen
MCZ 8147 (1 measurement)
Brues 1940 1 specimen
MCZ 8146 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Proctotrupidae
Brues 1940 1 specimen
MCZ 8257 (1 measurement)
Brues 1940 1 specimen
MCZ 8265 (1 measurement)
Brues 1940 1 specimen
MCZ 8272 (1 measurement)
Brues 1940 3 specimens
MCZ 8274, two "probably" (1 measurement)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Bethylidae
Brues 1939 1 specimen
MCZ 6634 (1 measurement)
Brues 1939 1 specimen
MCZ 7679 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Wheeler 1915 1 specimen
2172
Wheeler 1915 2 specimens
1349, 2435
Wheeler 1915 2 specimens
1498, 2646
Wheeler 1915 2 specimens
976, 1733
Wheeler 1915 1 specimen
976
Wheeler 1915 15 specimens
7, 441, 926, 927, 781, 1841, 1650, 1570, 1978, 2427, 2425, etc.; MCZ:ENT:PALE-43618 (ant host) in Belokobylskij et al. 2021
Wheeler 1915 12 specimens
200, 221, 254, 749, 1842, 1075, 1736, 1875 etc.
Wheeler 1915 8 specimens
473, 1452, 1875, 2429
Wheeler 1915 30 specimens
220, 253, 373, 857, 855, 589, 442, 863, 927, 979, 983 etc.
Wheeler 1915 1 specimen
415
Wheeler 1915 7 specimens
1894, 2412, 2441, etc.
Wheeler 1915 74 specimens
67, 104, 134, 291, 337, 859, 488, 980, 983, 1841 etc.
Brues 1939 1 specimen
MCZ 7666
Wheeler 1915 2 specimens
862, 2168
Wheeler 1915 13 specimens
265, 1438, 1665, 1692, 1650, 2433, etc
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Megaspilidae
Brues 1940 2 specimens
MCZ 9793, 9794 (2 measurements)
Brues 1940 1 specimen
MCZ 9795 (1 measurement)
Brues 1940 1 specimen
MCZ 9796 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Braconidae
Brues 1939 1 specimen
MCZ 7842
Brues 1939 1 specimen
MCZ 6710 (1 measurement)
van Achterberg 1982
"containing some males"
Brues 1939 1 specimen
MCZ 9292 (1 measurement)
Brues 1939 1 specimen
MCZ 9400 (1 measurement)
van Achterberg 1982 1 specimen
Brues 1939 1 specimen
MCZ 9395 (1 measurement)
Belokobylskij et al. 2021 1 specimen
MCZ:ENT:PALE-43618 (parasitoid larva)
Insecta - Mecoptera - Panorpodidae
Carpenter 1954 1 specimen
MCZ 5106 (1 measurement)
Carpenter 1954 3 specimens
MCZ 5103, 5104, 5105 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Mecoptera - Panorpidae
Carpenter 1954 1 specimen
MCZ 5107 (1 measurement)
Carpenter 1954 3 specimens
MCZ 5108, 5109, 5119 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Mecoptera - Bittacidae
Carpenter 1954 1 specimen
MCZ 5204 (old no. 5112) (1 measurement)
Carpenter 1954 4 specimens
MCZ 5113, 5114, 5115, 5116 (1 measurement)
Carpenter 1954 4 specimens
MCZ 5209 (old 5117), 5111; MCZ 4898 in Krzeminski, 2007 (1 measurement)
Krzemiński 2007 1 specimen
MCZ 5210 (old 5118), formerly B. fossilis in Carpenter, 1954
Insecta - Diptera - Syrphidae
Hull 1945 1 specimen
MCZ 9076 (ssp. rectinervis)
Hull 1945 1 specimen
MCZ 3969
Hull 1945 1 specimen
MCZ 9080
Hull 1945 1 specimen
MCZ 9029
Hull 1945 1 specimen
MCZ 9075
Hull 1957 1 specimen
MCZ 5124 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Diptera - Phoridae
Brues 1939 7 specimens
MCZ 8123-8129 (1 measurement)
Brues 1939 2 specimens
MCZ 8121, 8122 (1 measurement)
Brues 1939 1 specimen
MCZ 8120 (1 measurement)
Brues 1939 3 specimens
MCZ 8106-8108
Brues 1939 7 specimens
MCZ 8116-8118, three other probably, one doubtfully (1 measurement)
Brues 1939 1 specimen
MCZ 8113 (1 measurement)
Brues 1939 3 specimens
MCZ 8110-8112
Brues 1939 2 specimens
MCZ 8114, 8115 (1 measurement)
Brues 1939 1 specimen
MCZ 8101, 8102 (1 measurement)
Brues 1939 2 specimens
MCZ 8100, 8103 (1 measurement)
Brues 1939 1 specimen
MCZ 7689
Brues 1939 9 specimens
MCZ 8133-8141 (1 measurement)
Brues 1939 3 specimens
MCZ 8130-8132 (1 measurement)
Brues 1939 1 specimen
MCZ 8119 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Diptera - Clusiomitidae
Hennig 1969 1 specimen
MCZ 6545a
Pérez-de la Fuente et al. 2018
MCZ-PALE-19475
Insecta - Diptera - Psilidae
Hennig 1969 2 specimens
MCZ 6500, 7219
Insecta - Diptera - Asteiidae
Hennig 1969 1 specimen
MCZ 8004 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Diptera - Pallopteridae
Hennig 1969 1 specimen
MCZ 6501
Insecta - Diptera - Dryomyzidae
Hennig 1969 1 specimen
MCZ 6547
Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae
Pankowski 2024 1 specimen
MCZ:Ent:PALE-45886 (1 measurement)
Fanti and Pankowski 2024 1 specimen
MCZ:Ent:PALE-45868 (1 measurement)
Pankowski and Fanti 2024 1 specimen
MCZ:Ent:PALE-45876 (1 measurement)
Fanti and Pankowski 2020 1 specimen
MCZ:Ent:PALE-43614 (2 measurements)
Fanti and Pankowski 2020 1 specimen
MCZ:Ent:PALE-43615 (2 measurements)
Fanti 2021 1 specimen
MCZ:Ent:PALE-43635 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Artematopodidae
Crowson 1973 1 specimen
(2 measurements)
Crowson 1973 1 specimen
(2 measurements)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Ripiphoridae
Batelka et al. 2019 1 specimen
MCZ PALE-7007
Insecta - Coleoptera - Cleridae
Mawdsley 1993 1 specimen
(2 measurements)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Ptiliidae
2 specimens
MCZ 6839, 6629
Insecta - Neuroptera - Myrmeleontidae
MacLeod 1970 1 specimen
MCZ 5848 (from Klebs collection N27)
Insecta - Neuroptera - Psychopsidae
MacLeod 1970 1 specimen
larva
MacLeod 1970 1 specimen
MCZ collection
Insecta - Raphidioptera - Raphidiidae
Carpenter 1956 1 specimen
MCZ 5122 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Raphidioptera - Inocelliidae
Engel 1995 1 specimen
MCZ 9999 (2 measurements)
Carpenter 1956 2 specimens
MCZ 5120, 5121
Carpenter 1956 1 specimen
MCZ 5123 (2 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Kaliningrad
Coordinates: 54.9° North, 19.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.3° North, 23.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Priabonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 3
Key time interval: Priabonian
Age range of interval: 37.71 - 33.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: 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).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: amber
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:amber
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MCZ
Collection method comments: Some specimens originally in the Haren collection
Metadata
Database number:124205
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham, A. Noshirvan, A. Louderback, A. Delelli
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-02-07 17:38:04 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-02-07 17:38:04
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

39972. C. T. Parsons. 1939. A ptiliid beetle from Baltic amber in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Psyche 46:62-64 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

71720 J. Batelka, E. E. Perkovsky, and J. Prokop. 2019. Diversity of Eocene Ripiphoridae with descriptions of the first species of Pelecotominae and larva of Ripidiinae (Coleoptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188:412-433 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
77797 S. A. Belokobylskij, D. A. Dubikoff, A. R. Manukyan and D. M. Zharkov. 2021. Braconid parasitoids of ants (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae, Neoneurini) from Baltic amber with a discussion of records of fossil larvae parasitizing ant workers. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 84:29-43 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
40393 C. T. Brues. 1939. Fossil Phoridae in Baltic amber. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 85:413-436 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
101831% C. T. Brues. 1939. New Oligocene Braconidae and Bethylidae from Baltic Amber. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 32(2):251-263 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/M. Clapham]
10196ETE C. T. Brues. 1940. Serphidae in Baltic amber, with the description of a new living genus. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 73(9):259-269 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/M. Clapham]
40699 C. T. Brues. 1940. Calliceratidae in Baltic amber. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 73(9):265-269 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
10191ETE C. T. Brues. 1940. Fossil parasitic Hymenoptera of the family Scelionidae from Baltic Amber. Proceedings of the America Academy of Arts and Sciences 74(5):69-90 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/M. Clapham]
11224ETE F. M. Carpenter. 1954. The Baltic Amber Mecoptera. Psyche 31-40 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/A. Spencer-Lee]
11225ETE F. M. Carpenter. 1956. The Baltic amber snake-flies (Neuroptera). Psyche 63(3):77-81 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/M. Clapham]
40609 R. A. Crowson. 1973. On a new superfamily Artematopoidea of polyphagan beetles, with the definition of two new fossil genera from the Baltic amber. Journal of Natural History 7:225-238 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
50258 C. J. Drake. 1950. Concerning the Cantacaderinae of the world (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Arthropoda 1:153-166 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
5065ETE 777A. E. Emerson. 1969. A revision of the Tertiary fossil species of the Kalotermitidae (Isoptera). American Museum Novitates 2359:1-57 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]
11312ETE M. S. Engel. 1995. A New Fossil Snake-Fly Species from Baltic Amber (Raphidioptera: Inocelliidae). Psyche 102:187-193 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/R. Day]
79174 F. Fanti. 2021. A new genus of Cantharidae from Eocene Baltic amber found in Poland, with phoretic mites. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 21:105-110 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
74349 F. Fanti and M. G. Pankowski. 2020. Two new species of Cantharis Linnaeus, 1758 from Baltic amber. Zootaxa 4878:401-411 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
87850 F. Fanti and M. V. Pankowski. 2024. A new species of Eocene fossil Malthodes (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) with a rarely observed aedeagus. Zootaxa 5424:377-382 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
40300 W. Hennig. 1969. Neue übersicht über die aus dem Baltischen Bernstein bekannten Acalyptratae. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde 209:1-42 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
5083ETE 795F. M. Hull. 1945. A revisional study of the fossil Syrphidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 95:251-355 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]
5084ETE 796F. M. Hull. 1957. Tertiary flies from Colorado and the Baltic amber. Psyche 64:37-45 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]
57786 N. F. Johnson, L. Masner, and L. Musetti. 2008. Review of genera of the Tribe Sparasionini (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Scelionidae), and description of two gew genera from the New World. American Museum Novitates 3629:1-24 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
40787 V. A. Kolyada and M. B. Mostovski. 2007. Revision of Proctotrupidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) described by Ch. T. Brues from Baltic amber. Zootaxa (1661)29-38 [M. Clapham/A. Noshirvan/A. Noshirvan]
48707 W. Krzemiński. 2007. A revision of Eocene Bittacidae (Mecoptera) from Baltic amber, with the description of a new species. African Invertebrates 48:153-162 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
44122 E. G. MacLeod. 1970. The Neuroptera of the Baltic amber 1. Ascalaphidae, Nymphidae, and Psychopsidae. Psyche 77:147-180 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
40370 J. R. Mawdsley. 1993. A New Species of the Genus Strotocera Schenkling (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae) From the Baltic Amber. Psyche 100(1-2):77-81 [M. Clapham/A. Noshirvan]
88813 M. V. Pankowski. 2024. A new Malthinus (Coleoptera: Cantharidae: Malthininae) adds to the unrivaled diversity of arthropods found in Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa 5481:483-489 [M. Clapham/Z. Lipson/M. Clapham]
91593 M. V. Pankowski and F. Fanti. 2024. A new species of Eocene soldier beetle, a Malthodes (Coleoptera: Cantharidae: Malthininae) in Baltic amber. Historical Biology 37:1045-1049 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
64696 R. Pérez-de la Fuente, C. Hoffeins, and J. Rohacek. 2018. A new Acartophthalmites Hennig from Eocene Baltic amber (Diptera, Acalyptratae). ZooKeys 737:125-139 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47669 A. Petrunkevitch. 1950. Baltic amber spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 103(5):260-337 [M. Clapham/A. Louderback]
48498 R. L. Usinger. 1941. Two new species of Aradidae from Baltic amber (Hemiptera). Psyche 48:95-100 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
39998 R. L. Usinger. 1942. An Annectent Genus of Cimicoidea From Baltic Amber (Hemiptera). Psyche 49(3-4):41-46 [M. Clapham/A. Noshirvan/M. Clapham]
48416 C. van Achterberg. 1982. The fossil species of the subfamily Blacinae described by C.T. Brues (Hym.: Braconidae). Entomologische Berichten 42:91-96 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
40999 W. M. Wheeler. 1915. The Ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55:1-142 [M. Clapham/A. Delelli/M. Clapham]
47461 J. Wunderlich. 1981. Fossile Zwergsechsaugenspinnen (Oonopidae) der Gattung Orchestina Simon, 1882 in Bernstein mit Anmerkungen zur Sexual-biologie (Arachnida: Araneae). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 51:83-113 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]