Kenyan copal: Holocene, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Laemophloeidae
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Propalticus sp.
Sharp 1879
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 4.0° South, 39.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.0° South, 39.5° East |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Age given as Pliocene Kenyan amber, but "amber" from east Africa is almost certainly copal. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified amber |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,amber |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | YPM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 169386 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2015-05-22 20:29:38 | Last modified: | 2015-05-22 20:29:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-05-22 20:29:38 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 55351. | W. L. Krinsky. 1985. A Propalticus species in Kenyan amber (Coleoptera: Propalticidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 39:101-102 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |