Where: Gujarat, India (21.4° N, 73.1° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 63.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Age 50-52 Ma based on microfossils
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber
Reposited in the AMNH
• Material collected in January 2009, 2010, and 2011 and split among BSIPL, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, India; AMNH, American Museum of Natural History, New York, and SEMC, Snow Entomological Collections, Division of Entomology, University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence. Type material is presently in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA (AMNH) and the Steinmann Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie, und Paläontologie, Bonn, Germany (SIPB), but primary types will eventually be transferred to the amber collection of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, India
Primary reference: M. S. Engel, D. A. Grimaldi, H. Singh and P. C. Nascimbene. 2011. Webspinners in early Eocene amber from western India (Insecta: Embiodea). ZooKeys 148:197-208 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124463: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Sycorax longistyla n. sp.17
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Stempellinella pollex n. sp.19, Stempellina stebneri n. sp.19, Gujaratomyia miripes n. gen. n. sp.20, Tanytarsus spp.19, Tanytarsus forfex n. sp.19, Tanytarsus ramus n. sp.19
Gujaratomyia miripes n. gen. n. sp.20 Giłka and Zakrzewska 2018 non biting midge BSIP Tad-607a, b; Tad610 in Zakrzewska et al., 2020
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Lygistorrhina indica n. sp.13, Indorrhina sahnii n. gen. n. sp.13, Palaeognoriste orientale n. sp.13
Lygistorrhina indica n. sp.13 Stebner and Grimaldi 2017 long beaked fungus gnat BSIP Tad-442, AMNH Tad-492, Tad-888
Palaeognoriste orientale n. sp.13 Stebner and Grimaldi 2017 long beaked fungus gnat BSIP Tad-887, AMNH Tad-587, Tad-37A, Tad-324
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Pareuthychaeta eoindica n. sp.7
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Dolichopodidae indet.1, Medeterinae indet.1, Rajpardia grimaldii n. gen. n. sp.1, Gujaratmyia rotunda n. gen. n. sp.1, Palaeomedeterus sp.1, Palaeomedeterus cambayensis n. sp.1, Diaphorinae indet.1, Sympycninae indet.1
Palaeomedeterus cambayensis n. sp.1 Bickel 2022 long-legged fly AMNH Tad-476B, 124, 165, 448, 476A, 483; KU 173A
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Ceratopogonidae indet.14, Forcipomyia sp.14, Leptoconops sp.14, Mantohelea sp.14, Camptopterohelea odora n. sp.15, Gedanohelea gerdesorum n. sp.14, Stilobezzia sp.14, Brachypogon sp.14, Meunierohelea orientalis n. sp.14, Meunierohelea borkenti n. sp.14, Meunierohelea cambayana n. sp.14, Meunierohelea aff. cambayana14, Eohelea indica n. sp.14, Serromyia sp.14
Forcipomyia sp.14 Meigen 1818 biting midge AMNH Tad-163, 511a, 511b, 565, 602, 616a, 643, 856, 860, 862a
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Kumarembia hurleyi n. gen. n. sp.
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Nanotermes isaacae n. gen. n. sp.3
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Normarkicoccus cambayae n. gen. n. sp.16
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Heteromargarodes hukamsinghi n. sp.16
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Archaesalepta schuhi n. gen. n. sp.5
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Trichelyon tadkeshwarense n. gen. n. sp.10
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Melikertini indet.4, Melikertes (Melikertes) kamboja n. sp.4, Melikertes (Paramelikertes) gujaratensis n. sp.4, ? Protobombus sp.4
Melikertes (Melikertes) kamboja n. sp.4 Engel and Ortega-Blanco 2013 bee AMNH Tad-272-A, STB-092-T10
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Spiloconis eominuta n. sp.6
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Cambaltica paleoindica n. gen. n. sp.8, Protorthaltica setosella n. gen. n. sp.8, Davidaltica cambayensis n. gen. n. sp.8
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Protoclaviger trichodens n. gen. n. sp.12, Yprezethinus grimaldii n. gen. n. sp.11, Paleosorius cambayensis n. gen. n. sp.9
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Arachnida | |
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Paracharonopsis cambayensis n. gen. n. sp.2
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