Where: Poland (50.7° N, 17.2° E: paleocoordinates 51.0° N, 16.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Beetle-bearing silica deposits are younger than the Przeworno fauna, but older than the clays filling the cave which contain an Upper Miocene or Pliocene pollen assemblage. Age of the fossil beetles may be determined as Upper Miocene.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithified chert

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original chitin

Collection methods: Repository: Institute of Geology, Warsaw University

Primary reference: K. Galewski and J. Glazek. 1973. An unusual occurrence of the Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) in the siliceous flowstone of the Upper Miocene cave at Przeworno, Lower Silesia, Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 23:445-461 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167589: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.03.2015

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