PBDB Collection

Baltic amber (LACM coll): Priabonian, Russian Federation

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Insecta - Diptera - Phoridae

	Triphleba schulmanae n. sp. Brown 2003	Brown 2003	1 specimen
	(1 measurement)

	Hypocera electra (Brues 1939)	Brown 2007	16 specimens
	LACM ENT 159078, 159084, 159107, 159256, 159274, 159384, 159419, 159590, 159591, 159621, 159687, 159710, 159718, 159730, 159731, 208727

	Hypocera oschini n. sp. Brown 1999		6 specimens
	LACM IP 12785, 12786; LACM ENT 159623, 159657, 159668, 228971 in Brown 2007

	Hypocera miriamae n. sp. Brown 2007	Brown 2007	1 specimen
	LACM ENT 159658 (1 measurement)

	Anevrina shoumayae n. sp. Brown 2013	Brown 2013	3 specimens
	LACM ENT 266386 (1 measurement)

	Jealia pulcherrima n. gen., n. sp. Brown 2009	Brown 2009	1 specimen
	LACM ENT 268414

	Limulomyia tyche Brown 1999	Brown 2016	3 specimens
	LACM ENT 159892, 159893(x2)

	Ulrichophora lobata n. gen., n. sp. Brown 2007	Brown 2007	1 specimen
	LACM ENT 159890

	Pseudaenigmatias ctenitibia n. gen., n. sp. Brown 2016	Brown 2016	5 specimens
	LACM ENT 268384, 159575, 159758, 159811, 271214

	Aenigmatias sp. Meinert 1890	Brown 2016	1 specimen
	LACM ENT 159804

	Chaetopleurophora bisetosa n. sp. Brown 2007	Brown 2007	3 specimens
	LACM 159624, 15966, 159682

	Aenigmatias nigeroticus n. sp. Brown 2016	Brown 2016	11 specimens
	LACM ENT 261240, 159291, 159420, 159798, 159807(x2), 159900, 232579, 237764, 268334, 268420

	Aenigmatias primitivus n. sp. Brown 2016	Brown 2016	5 specimens
	LACM ENT 208732, 158810, 159805, 275281, 278118

	Aenigmatias tertiarius (Brues 1939)	Brown 2016	4 specimens
	LACM ENT 159070(x2), 159562, 268417
Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

	Psychodinae indet. Newman 1834	Curler and Skibińska 2021	1 specimen
	LACM ENT 340462

	Paleotelmatoscopus sp. Curler and Skibińska 2021	Curler and Skibińska 2021	8 specimens
	LACM ENT 195999, 268326, 340456, 340457, 340458, 340460, 340461, 340463

	Paleotelmatoscopus madrizi Curler and Skibińska 2021	Curler and Skibińska 2021	3 specimens
	LACM ENT 340451, 340452, 340453

	Paleotelmatoscopus formosa (Meunier 1905)	Curler and Skibińska 2021	4 specimens
	LACM ENT 268345, 340454, 340455, 340459
see common names

Geography

Country:	Russian Federation
Coordinates:	54.9° North, 19.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	53.9° North, 15.2° East

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
Includes fossils?	Y
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body,amber
Size of fossils:	mesofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	LACM

Metadata

Database number:	124765
Authorizer:	M. Clapham	Enterer:	A. Noshirvan, M. Clapham
Modifier:	M. Clapham	Research group:	paleoentomology
Created:	2012-02-23 07:55:38	Last modified:	2015-03-25 17:44:25
Access level:	the public	Released:	2012-02-23 07:55:38
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

5894.

ETE 1661

B. V. Brown. 1999. A fossil Hypocera species (Diptera: Phoridae) and its phylogenetic implications. Studia Dipterologica 6:273-277 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

51700		B. V. Brown. 2003. A new species of Triphleba (Diptera: Phoridae) with bifurcate antennae from Baltic amber. Studia Dipterologica 10:195-197 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
61844		B. V. Brown. 2007. Novel character states in fossil species of modern phorid genera (Diptera: Phoridae). Studia Dipterologica 14:107-116 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
40380		B. V. Brown. 2007. A further new genus of primitive phorid fly (Diptera: Phoridae) from Baltic amber and its phylogenetic implications. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 513:1-14 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
40379		B. V. Brown. 2009. An enigmatic new genus and species of phorid fly from Baltic amber. Studia Dipterologica 16:43-46 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
46761		B. V. Brown. 2013. A new species of Anevrina from Baltic amber (Diptera: Phoridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 106:310-312 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
61843		B. V. Brown. 2016. Fossil evidence of social insect commensalism in the Phoridae (Insecta: Diptera). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15:276-286 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
78961		G. R. Curler and K. Skibińska. 2021. Paleotelmatoscopus, a proposed new genus for some fossil moth flies (Diptera, Psychodidae, Psychodinae) in Eocene Baltic amber, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4927:505-524 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]