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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Nanotermes isaacae n. gen. n. sp.3
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Kumarembia hurleyi n. gen. n. sp.
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Archaesalepta schuhi n. gen. n. sp.5
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Heteromargarodes hukamsinghi n. sp.16
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Normarkicoccus cambayae n. gen. n. sp.16
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Melikertini indet.4, Melikertes (Paramelikertes) gujaratensis n. sp.4, Melikertes (Melikertes) kamboja 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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Trichelyon tadkeshwarense n. gen. n. sp.10
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Spiloconis eominuta n. sp.6
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Protorthaltica setosella n. gen. n. sp.8, Cambaltica paleoindica n. gen. n. sp.8, Davidaltica cambayensis n. gen. n. sp.8
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Paleosorius cambayensis n. gen. n. sp.9, Yprezethinus grimaldii n. gen. n. sp.11, Protoclaviger trichodens n. gen. n. sp.12
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Tanytarsus spp.19, Tanytarsus ramus n. sp.19, Tanytarsus forfex n. sp.19, Gujaratomyia miripes n. gen. n. sp.20, Stempellina stebneri n. sp.19, Stempellinella pollex 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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Ceratopogonidae indet.14, Forcipomyia sp.14, Leptoconops sp.14, Eohelea indica n. sp.14, Meunierohelea orientalis n. sp.14, Meunierohelea cambayana n. sp.14, Meunierohelea aff. cambayana14, Meunierohelea borkenti n. sp.14, Mantohelea sp.14, Serromyia sp.14, Brachypogon sp.14, Camptopterohelea odora n. sp.15, Gedanohelea gerdesorum n. sp.14, Stilobezzia 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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Pareuthychaeta eoindica n. sp.7
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Dolichopodidae indet.1, Rajpardia grimaldii n. gen. n. sp.1, Sympycninae indet.1, Medeterinae indet.1, Gujaratmyia rotunda n. gen. n. sp.1, Palaeomedeterus sp.1, Palaeomedeterus cambayensis n. sp.1, Diaphorinae 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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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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Sycorax longistyla n. sp.17
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Paracharonopsis cambayensis n. gen. n. sp.2
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