Baltic Amber, Fano Island: Priabonian, Denmark

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Arachnida - Araneae - Theridiidae
Mysmena succini (Petrunkevitch 1942)
1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Theridiidae
Eomysmena baltica (Petrunkevitch 1946)
1 specimen
Arachnida - Araneae - Phrurolithidae
Phrurolithus ipseni n. sp. Petrunkevitch 1958
1 specimen
Arachnida - Araneae - Oonopidae
Orchestina baltica Petrunkevitch 1942
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Denmark
Coordinates: 55.4° North, 8.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:54.1° North, 3.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 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:amber
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: collection of Dr. Johannes Ipsen
Metadata
Database number:148840
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:A. Louderback
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2013-07-26 07:12:29 Last modified:2015-03-25 18:08:31
Access level:the public Released:2013-07-26 07:12:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

47730. A. Petrunkevitch. 1958. Amber Spiders in European Collections. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 41:97-400 [M. Clapham/A. Louderback]