Baltic Amber, Poinar collection: Priabonian, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Enoplea - Rhabditida - Rhabditidae
Tipulacomis balticus n. gen., n. sp. Poinar 2011
Poinar 2011 11 specimens
Poinar N-3-70
Psychodorhabditis balticus n. sp. Poinar 2011
Poinar 2011 2 specimens
Poinar N-3-74
Palaeorhabditis balticus n. gen., n. sp. Poinar 2011
Poinar 2011
Poinar N-3-81 ("several hundred")
Enoplea - Rhabditida - Filariidae
Cascofilaria baltica n. gen., n. sp. Poinar 2011
Poinar 2011 1 specimen
Sy-1-172
Enoplea - Rhabditida - Aphelenchoididae
Palaeoaphelenchoides balticus n. gen., n. sp. Poinar 2011
Poinar 2011
N-3-80 ("several hundred")
Enoplea - Rhabditida - Sphaerulariidae
Tripius balticus n. sp. Poinar 2011
Poinar 2011 18 specimens
Poinar N-3-67
Enoplea - Rhabditida - Allantonematidae
Howardula helenoschini n. sp. Poinar 2003
Poinar 2003 5 specimens
Palaeoallantonema baltica n. sp. Poinar 2011
Poinar 2011 92 specimens
Poinar N-3-37
Palaeoallantonema zygopinae n. sp. Poinar 2011
Poinar 2011 8 specimens
Poinar N-3-106
Enoplea - Mermithida - Mermithidae
Heydenius cecidomyae n. sp. Poinar 2011
Poinar 2011 1 specimen
N-3-53
Heydenius podenasae n. sp. Poinar 2012
Poinar 2012 1 specimen
N-3-114
Heydenius simulphilus n. sp. Poinar and Currie 2020
Poinar and Currie 2020 2 specimens
Poinar D-B-10-27A, B
Heydenius quadristriatus (Menge 1872)
Poinar 2011 3 specimens
N-3-15A,B,C
Heydenius sciarophilus n. sp. Poinar 2011
Poinar 2011 14 specimens
N-3-46 (x2), 59, 15B, 84 (x4), 85 (x5)
Heydenius brownii n. sp. Poinar 2001
Poinar 2001 1 specimen
N-3-51
Heydenius formicinus n. sp. Poinar 2002
Poinar 2002 2 specimens
N-3-52; N-3-69 in Poinar 2011
Heydenius matutinus (Menge 1866)
Poinar 2011 10 specimens
N-3-15A,C,E, 35A,B, 54A,B, 56A,B, 76
Enoplea - Mermithida - Tetradonematidae
Palaeotetradonema sciarae n. sp. Poinar 2011
Poinar 2011 1 specimen
N-3-62
Myriapoda
Succinipatopsis balticus n. gen., n. sp. Poinar 2000
1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Chilopoda
ON-1-1
Insecta - Diptera - Simuliidae
Greniera affinis (Meunier 1904)
Poinar and Currie 2020 1 specimen
Poinar D-B-10-27
Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae
Macrochile spectrum Loew 1850
Poinar and Brown 2006 1 specimen
Poinar D-7-230
Insecta - Diptera - Acroceridae
Eulonchiella eocenica Meunier 1912
Gillung and Winterton 2011 1 specimen
DB 10-12
Insecta - Diptera - Phoridae
Triphleba sp. Rondani 1856
Poinar 2003 1 specimen
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Trigonalidae
Eotrigonalis balticus n. gen., n. sp. Poinar 2005
Poinar 2005 1 specimen
Hy-10-180
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Megalyridae
Megalyra baltica n. sp. Poinar and Shaw 2007
Poinar and Shaw 2007 1 specimen
H-10-187
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Braconidae
Neoneurinae indet. (Bengtsson 1918)
Poinar and Miller 2002 1 specimen
original and current combination Neoneurini
Poinar S-1-149 (parasitoid larva)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Pompilidae
Paleogenia wahisi n. gen., n. sp. Waichert and Pitts 2016
Rodriguez et al. 2016 5 specimens
OSAC Hy-10-80a-e (4 measurements)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Prenolepis henschei Mayr 1868
Poinar 2002 1 specimen
Associated with Heydenius formicinus N-3-52
Lasius sp. Fabricius 1805
Poinar and Miller 2002 1 specimen
Poinar S-1-149 (probably L. schiefferdeckeri)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Vespidae
Palaeovespa socialis n. sp. Poinar 2005
Poinar 2005 1 specimen
H-10-175
Insecta - Strepsiptera - Myrmecolacidae
Stylops neotropicallis n. sp. Kogan and Poinar 2010
Kogan et al. 2015 1 specimen
recombined as Palaeomyrmecolax neotropicallis
Poinar D-1-11 (actually from Baltic amber, not Dominican; Kogan et al., 2015) (2 measurements)
Palaeomyrmecolax aff. succineus Kulicka 2001
Kogan et al. 2015 1 specimen
Poinar BSt1-3a (2 measurements)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Nitidulidae
Omositoidea pubescens n. sp. Kirejtshuk and Poinar 2007
Kirejtshuk and Poinar 2007 1 specimen
C-7-392
Insecta - Coleoptera - Belidae
Succinometrioxena attenuata n. sp. Legalov and Poinar 2020
Legalov and Poinar 2020 1 specimen
PACO #7 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Anthribidae
Glaesotropis (Glaesotropis) weitschati (Gratshev and Zherikhin 1995)
Legalov and Poinar 2020 1 specimen
PACO #5 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Synommatodes patruelis (Voss 1953)
Legalov and Poinar 2020 1 specimen
PACO #1 (1 measurement)
Caulophilus sucinopunctatus (Kuska 1992)
Legalov and Poinar 2020 1 specimen
PACO #9
Electrotribus theryi Hustache 1942
Legalov and Poinar 2020 1 specimen
PACO #2 (1 measurement)
Archaeosciaphilus gyrommatus n. sp. Legalov and Poinar 2021
Legalov and Poinar 2021 1 specimen
Poinar Cu 6
Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae
Rhagonycha sucinobaltica n. sp. Poinar and Fanti 2016
Poinar and Fanti 2016 1 specimen
recombined as Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) sucinobaltica
Poinar C-202 (1 measurement)
Cacomorphocerus endecacerus n. sp. Poinar and Fanti 2019
Poinar and Fanti 2019 1 specimen
Poinar C-7-231 (2 measurements)
unclassified
Palaeosoma balticus n. gen., n. sp. Poinar 2003
Poinar 2003
nomen vanum belonging to Pseudofossil
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Kaliningrad
Coordinates: 54.9° North, 19.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:53.9° North, 15.2° East
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:body,amber
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Specimens in collection of George Poinar at Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis.
Metadata
Database number:125139
Authorizer:M. Clapham, P. Wagner Enterer:A. Noshirvan, S. Tweedt, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-03-05 11:44:27 Last modified:2015-03-25 17:46:48
Access level:the public Released:2012-03-05 11:44:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
40638. G. Poinar. 2000. Fossil onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n. g., n. sp. (Tertiapatidae n. fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n. g., n. sp. (Succinipatopsidae n. fam.) with a proposed classification of the subphylum Onychophora. Invertebrate Biology 119:104-109 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

45432 J. P. Gillung and S. L. Winterton. 2011. New genera of philopotine spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to living and fossil genera. ZooKeys 127:15-27 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
45474 A. G. Kirejtshuk and G. Poinar. 2007. Species of two paleoendemic sap beetle genera of the tribe Nitidulini (Nitidulidae: Coleoptera) from the Baltic and Dominican amber. Paleontological Journal 41:629-641 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
55683 M. Kogan, G. Poinar, and J. L. Cook. 2015. A case of mistaken identification of an amber fossil male strepsipteran (Insecta: Strepsiptera). Historical Biology 27:1062-1069 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
72962 A. A. Legalov and G. O. Poinar. 2020. Two new species and new findings of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) in Baltic amber. Ukrainian Journal of Ecology 10:357-364 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
82929 A. A. Legalov and G. Poinar. 2021. A new species of the genus Archaeosciaphilus Legalov, 2012 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) with a list of Entiminae weevils described from Baltic amber. Historical Biology 34:2218-2223 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
54966 G. Poinar. 2002. First fossil record of nematode parasitism of ants; a 40 million year tale. Parasitology 125:457-459 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
54967 G. Poinar. 2003. Fossil evidence of phorid parasitism (Diptera: Phoridae) by allantonematid nematodes (Tylenchida: Allantonematidae). Parasitology 127:589-592 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
33073 G. Poinar. 2003. A rhabdocoel turbellarian (Platyhelminthes, Typhloplanoida) in Baltic amber with a review of fossil and sub-fossil platyhelminths. Invertebrate Biology 122(4):308-312 [P. Wagner/S. Tweedt]
48674 G. Poinar. 2005. Fossil Trigonalidae and Vespidae (Hymenoptera) in Baltic amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 107:55-63 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
56363 G. Poinar and A. E. Brown. 2006. The enigmatic Dacochile microsoma Poinar & Brown: Tanyderidae or Bruchomyiinae?. Zootaxa 1162:19-31 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
59310 G. Poinar and F. Fanti. 2016. New fossil soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) in Burmese, Baltic and Dominican amber. Palaeodiversity 9:1-7 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
70067 G. Poinar and F. Fanti. 2019. A new fossil soldier beetle (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) of the genus Cacomorphocerus Schaufuss, 1892 from Baltic amber. Palaeodiversity 12:99-105 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
60489 G. Poinar and J. C. Miller. 2002. First fossil record of endoparasitism of adult ants (Formicidae: Hymenoptera) by Braconidae (Hymenoptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 95:41-43 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
40732 G. Poinar and S. R. Shaw. 2007. Megalyra baltica Poinar and Shaw n. sp (Hymenoptera : Megalyridae), a long-tailed wasp from Baltic amber. Zootaxa (1478)65-68 [M. Clapham/A. Noshirvan/M. Clapham]
54965 G. O. Poinar. 2001. Heydenius brownii sp. n. (Nematoda: Mermithidae) parasitising a planthopper (Homoptera: Achilidae) in Baltic amber. Nematology 3:753-757 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
54969 G. O. Poinar. 2011. The Evolutionary History of Nematodes: As Revealed in Stone, Amber and Mummies 1-429 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
54968 G. O. Poinar. 2012. New fossil nematodes in Dominican and Baltic amber. Nematology 14:483-488 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
71870 G. O. Poinar and D. C. Currie. 2020. Mermithid nematode (Nematoda: Mermithidae) parasites of a fossil black fly (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Baltic amber. Nematology 22:655-658 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
58140 J. Rodriguez, C. Waichert, C. D. Von Dohlen, G. Poinar, and J. P. Pitts. 2016. Eocene and not Cretaceous origin of spider wasps: fossil evidence from amber. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61:89-96 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]