Baltic Amber (Eichmann collection): Priabonian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Arachnida - Araneae - Archaeidae
Wunderlich 2004 1 specimen
Arachnida - Araneae - Clubionidae
Wunderlich 2004 1 specimen
May be conspecific with Eodoter magnificus
Arachnida - Araneae - Liocranidae
Wunderlich 2004 1 specimen
Nr. 611
Arachnida - Araneae - Phrurolithidae
Wunderlich 2004 1 specimen
AR22
Arachnida - Araneae - Zodariidae
Wunderlich 2004 1 specimen
Wunderlich 2004 1 specimen
Wunderlich 2004 1 specimen
Arachnida - Araneae - Synotaxidae
Wunderlich 2004 1 specimen
Wunderlich 2004 1 specimen
no. 500
Arachnida - Araneae - Araneidae
Wunderlich 2004 1 specimen
No.381
Wunderlich 2004 1 specimen
AE19
Arachnida - Araneae - Theridiidae
Wunderlich 2008 1 specimen
No. 03
Wunderlich 2008 1 specimen
Ar 30
Arachnida - Araneae - Theridiosomatidae
Wunderlich 2004 1 specimen
Arachnida - Araneae - Pisauridae
Wunderlich 2022 1 specimen
F. Eichmann Ar 54
Arachnida - Araneae - Succinomidae
Wunderlich 2012 1 specimen
Ar. 88 (few km south of Vitte)
Arachnida - Araneae - Halonoproctidae
? Ummidia sp. Thorell 1875
Wunderlich 2011 1 specimen
Eichmann Ar 38 (not Grabenhorst Ar-38 as in Wunderlich, 2011)
Arachnida - Araneae - Atypidae
Wunderlich 2011 1 specimen
Ar. 80
Insecta - Hemiptera - Kuwaniidae
Koteja 2008 1 specimen
Nr. 591
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Megachilidae
1 specimen
(CFEG)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae
1 specimen
(CFEG)
Insecta - Diptera - Conopidae
Stuke 2003 1 specimen
Insecta - Trichoptera - Sericostomatidae
Wichard 2013 1 specimen
Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 597
Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
Schmidt et al. 2016 1 specimen
No. 452 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Scirtidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 643
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 780
Insecta - Coleoptera - Chelonariidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 767
Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae
Cantharidae indet. Imhoff 1856
Alekseev 2019 4 specimens
Eichmann 642, 644, 645, 648
Alekseev 2019 2 specimens
Eichmann 646, 647
Insecta - Coleoptera - Artematopodidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 628
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 773
Insecta - Coleoptera - Lampyridae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 784 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Dermestidae
Alekseev 2019 2 specimens
Eichmann 748, 759
Insecta - Coleoptera - Ptinidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 787
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 779 (2 measurements)
Alekseev and Bukejs 2019
Microbregma sp. (Seidlitz 1889)
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 766
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 633
Insecta - Coleoptera - Anthribidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 656
Legalov 2019
Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Alekseev 2019 3 specimens
Eichmann 650, 654, 655
Alekseev 2019 4 specimens
Eichmann 638, 748, 754, 755
Legalov 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 649 (1 measurement)
Legalov 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 652 (1 measurement)
Legalov 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 653 (1 measurement)
Legalov 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 651 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 637
Insecta - Coleoptera - Cerambycidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 782
Insecta - Coleoptera - Silvanidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 641
Insecta - Coleoptera - Zopheridae
Pycnomerus sp. Erichson 1842
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 634
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 765
Insecta - Coleoptera - Ripiphoridae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 756
Insecta - Coleoptera - Mycetophagidae
Alekseev 2019 4 specimens
Eichmann 769, 772, 781, 786
Insecta - Coleoptera - Salpingidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 639 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Aderidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 760
Alekseev 2019 2 specimens
Eichmann 640, 767
Insecta - Coleoptera - Mycteridae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 770
Insecta - Coleoptera - Melandryidae
Alekseev 2019 2 specimens
Eichmann 630, 758
Insecta - Coleoptera
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 629 (2 measurements)
    = Samlandotoma seidlitzi n. gen., n. sp. Alekseev 2019
Alekseev 2019
Insecta - Coleoptera - Anthicidae
Macratria sp. Newman 1838
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 635
Insecta - Coleoptera - Scraptiidae
Anaspidinae indet. Mulsant 1856
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 751
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 636
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 768
Scraptia sp. Latreille 1807
Alekseev 2019 3 specimens
Eichmann 749, 750, 777
Insecta - Coleoptera - Monotomidae
Europs sp. Wollaston 1854
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 776
Insecta - Coleoptera - Nitidulidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 744
Insecta - Coleoptera - Latridiidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 774
Corticarina sp. Reitter 1881
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 771
Insecta - Coleoptera - Cerylonidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 785
Bukejs et al. 2021
Insecta - Coleoptera - Melyridae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 752
Insecta - Coleoptera - Cleridae
Alekseev 2019 2 specimens
Eichmann 631, 632
Insecta - Coleoptera - Histeridae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 757
Insecta - Coleoptera - Ptiliidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 753
Insecta - Coleoptera - Leiodidae
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 775 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Tachyporinae indet. MacLeay 1825
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 778
Alekseev 2019 2 specimens
Eichmann 760, 762
Omaliinae indet. MacLeay 1825
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 763
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 761
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 764
Alekseev 2019 1 specimen
Eichmann 783
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 54.6° North, 13.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.2° North, 17.2° East (Wright 2013)
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:body,amber
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository of Freidhelm Eichmann
Metadata
Database number:123769
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:A. Noshirvan, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-01-28 05:55:02 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-01-28 05:55:02
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
39684. M. S. Engel. 2001. A monograph of the Baltic amber bees and evolution of the Apoidea (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 259:1-192 [M. Clapham/A. Noshirvan]

Secondary references:

70042 V. I. Alekseev. 2019. New extinct Eocene Coleoptera in Baltic amber of Friedhelm Eichmann's collection (Germany). Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 19:11-22 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
70395 V. I. Alekseev. 2019. A first putative pelecotomine beetle (Сoleoptera: Ripiphoridae) in Tertiary amber of the Kaliningrad Region. Studies and Reports, Taxonomical Series 15:283-292 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
70523 V. I. Alekseev and A. Bukejs. 2019. Xyletinus (s. str.) thienemanni sp. nov., a new species of Xyletininae (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from Eocene Baltic amber. Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 19:31-35 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
78938 A. Bukejs, A. Ślipiński, J. L. Mitchell, R. C. McKellar, M. Barbi, H. C. E. Larsson, and V. I. Alekseev. 2021. First fossil representative of Cerylonidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea) described using X-ray micro-computed tomography, from Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa 5032:225-236 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
54131 J. Koteja. 2008. Xylococcidae and related groups (Hemiptera: Coccinea) from Baltic amber. Prace Muzeum Ziemi 49:19-56 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
71328 A. A. Legalov. 2019. A review of the Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) from European Eocene ambers. Geosciences 10(16) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
58239 J. Schmidt, H. Hoffmann, and P. Michalik. 2016. Blind life in the Baltic amber forests: description of an eyeless species of the ground beetle genus Trechus Clairville, 1806 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini). Zootaxa 4083:431-443 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
51701 J. H. Stuke. 2003. Eine neue Blasenkopffliege der Gattung Palaeomyopa Meunier aus dem Baltischen Bernstein (Diptera: Conopidae). Studia Dipterologica 10:91-96 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
51829 W. Wichard. 2013. Overview and Descriptions of Trichoptera in Baltic Amber: Spicipalpia and Integripalpia 1-229 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47846 J. Wunderlich. 2004. Fossil spiders (Araneae) of the family Zodariidae in Baltic amber, with remarks on their subfamilies including the Cryptothelinae and the Homalonychinae. In J. Wunderlich (ed.), Beiträge zur Araneologie 3:1578-1611 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47847 J. Wunderlich. 2004. Fossil spiders (Araneae) of the families Clubionidae and Miturgidae (questionable) in Baltic and Dominican amber. In J. Wunderlich (ed.), Beiträge zur Araneologie 3:1612-1622 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47819 J. Wunderlich. 2004. Fossil and extant spiders (Araneae) of the superfamily Eresoidea s.l., with special reference to the Archaeidae and remarks on some higher taxa of the superfamily Araneoidea. In J. Wunderlich (ed.), Beiträge zur Araneologie 3:747-808 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47848 J. Wunderlich. 2004. The fossil spiders of the family Liocranidae in Baltic and Dominican amber. In J. Wunderlich (ed.), Beiträge zur Araneologie 3:1623-1635 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47824 J. Wunderlich. 2004. Fossil taxa of the family Araneidae (Araneae) inclusively Nephilinae in Baltic and Dominican amber, with the description of a new extinct subfamily and notes on selected extant taxa. In J. Wunderlich (ed.), Beiträge zur Araneologie 3:956-997 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47849 J. Wunderlich. 2004. Fossil spiders of the family Corinnidae in Baltic and Dominican amber. In J. Wunderlich (ed.), Beiträge zur Araneologie 3:1636-1680 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47825 J. Wunderlich. 2004. The fossil Theridiosomatidae (Araneae) in Baltic and Dominican amber. In J. Wunderlich (ed.), Beiträge zur Araneologie 3:998-1019 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47829 J. Wunderlich. 2004. The fossil spiders (Araneae) of the family Synotaxidae in Baltic amber. In J. Wunderlich (ed.), Beiträge zur Araneologie 3:1189-1239 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47531 J. Wunderlich. 2008. On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5:140-469 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47712 J. Wunderlich. 2011. Some fossil spiders (Araneae) in Eocene European ambers. Beiträge zur Araneologie 6:472-538 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47719 J. Wunderlich. 2012. Corrections and addenda to vol. 6 of the Beitr. Araneol. (2011). Beiträge zur Araneologie 7:245-246 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47716 J. Wunderlich. 2012. New fossil spiders (Araneae) of eight families in Eocene Baltic amber, and revisions of selected taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 7:94-149 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
81808 J. Wunderlich. 2022. New and rare fossil spiders (Araneae) in Eocene Baltic amber. Beiträge zur Araneologie 15:79-118 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]