Baltic amber, Museo Civico Aspromonte collection: Priabonian, Poland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Cantharidae
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Mantimalthinus balticus n. gen., n. sp.
Fanti and Castiglione 2017
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Poland |
| Coordinates: | 54.3° North, 19.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 53.4° North, 14.2° 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: | 37.71 - 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: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Museo Civico di Paleontologia e Scienze Naturali dell’Aspromonte | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 187439 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2017-07-28 11:10:49 | Last modified: | 2022-10-24 20:18:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-07-28 11:10:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 62902. | F. Fanti and E. Castiglione. 2017. Description of a new genus and species of Cantharidae from Eocene Baltic amber (Insecta, Coleoptera). Palaeodiversity 10:123-127 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |