Also known as Saxonian amber
Where: Halle, Germany (51.6° N, 12.4° E: paleocoordinates 50.4° N, 8.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• Bitterfeld amber occurs in the "Bernsteinschluff" Horizon, i.e. a part of the Upper "Bitterfelder Glimmersand" in the upper part of the Cottbus Formation. Detailed biostratigraphic investigations favor an uppermost Chattian age for the unit. Originally assigned a Miocene age, and then thought to be redeposited Baltic amber. The chemical composition of Bitterfeld amber is distinct from true Baltic amber (e.g., Sodhi et al., 2013). Hydrogen isotopes indicate that Baltic and Bitterfeld ambers have distinct geographic sources, but carbon isotopes and insects suggest Baltic and Bitterfeld ambers are coeval in age (Wolfe et al., 2016).
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber
Collected by C. Hoffeins, H.W. Hoffeins
• Will be deposited in the collection of the Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Eberswalde, Germany (DEI).
Primary reference: R. Wagner, C. Hoffeins, and H. W. Hoffeins. 2000. A fossil nymphomyiid (Diptera) from the Baltic and Bitterfield amber. Systematic Entomology 25:115-120 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124273: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.02.2012, edited by Arram Noshirvan
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Nymphomyia succina n. sp.
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Heleodromia starki n. sp.12
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Protanthomyza tschirnhausi n. sp.22 Roháček 2013 fly 829-8 (collected at Goitzsche mine 2010), 830-7 (purch. 2010)
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Aenigmatias longicornis n. sp.6
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Necrothrips major n. sp.25, Cephenothrips propelaticeps n. sp.27, Prohaplothrips iunctostylosus n. gen. n. sp.25
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Protoxythrips ursulae26, Protoxythrips stenurus27, Protoxythrips conclusus27, Taeniothrips (Saxonothrips) goitschei n. sp.24, "Taeniothrips usedomi" = Taeniothrips (Balticothrips) usedomi27, "Taeniothrips (Saxonothrips) amphoroideus" = Taeniothrips balticus24, "Taeniothrips (Saxonothrips) saxonicus n. sp." = Taeniothrips balticus24, Frankliniella intonsoidea n. sp.24, Protanaphothrips minoricornis27, Eochirothrips mirocornis n. gen. n. sp.24, Anaphothrips fuscicaudeus27, Incertothrips hoffeinsorum n. gen. n. sp.25, "Archaeothrips hoffeinsi n. sp." = Gerontothrips latipennis23
"Taeniothrips usedomi" = Taeniothrips (Balticothrips) usedomi27 Schliephake 1999 thrips Hoffeins 1477/1
"Taeniothrips (Saxonothrips) amphoroideus" = Taeniothrips balticus24 Schliephake 1999 thrips Nr. 272/1
"Taeniothrips (Saxonothrips) saxonicus n. sp." = Taeniothrips balticus24 Schliephake 1999 thrips Nr. 576/2
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"Eocranothrips leptocerus n. sp." = Eocranothrips annulicornis24, Archankothrips hoffeinsianus n. sp.25
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Stenurothrips brachycerus n. sp.24
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Trochoideus resinatissimus n. sp.4
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Kleinzaches germanicianus n. gen. n. sp.4
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Triplax contienensis n. sp.1, Serramorphus rasnitsyni n. gen. n. sp.18, Microzavaljus saxonicum n. gen. n. sp.19
Serramorphus rasnitsyni n. gen. n. sp.18 Lyubarsky and Perkovsky 2017 pleasing fungus beetle CCHH 26-4
Microzavaljus saxonicum n. gen. n. sp.19 Lyubarsky and Perkovsky 2018 pleasing fungus beetle Hoffeins 1223-1
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"Neolitochropus bedovoyi" = Neolitochropus bedovoyi8, "Neolitochropus hoffeinsorum n. gen. n. sp." = Neolitochropus bedovoyi17
"Neolitochropus bedovoyi" = Neolitochropus bedovoyi8 Lyubarsky and Perkovsky 2011 beetle CCHH 504-17
"Neolitochropus hoffeinsorum n. gen. n. sp." = Neolitochropus bedovoyi17 Lyubarsky and Perkovsky 2011 beetle CCHH 1206-1
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Atomaria (Anchicera) saxonica n. sp.20
Atomaria (Anchicera) saxonica n. sp.20 Lyubarsky and Perkovsky 2018 silken fungus beetle CCHH 1223-4
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Palaeocnopus mara n. sp.3, Palaeocnopus saeticornis n. sp.3, Palaeocnopus densipunctatus3, Palaeocnopus glabricornis n. sp.3
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Microsoronia hoffeinsorum n. sp.14
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Hylobittacus picteti n. sp.16
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