Where: Italy (37.4° N, 15.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 14.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Some propose an Oligocene age, or Upper Miocene to perhaps Pliocene. Found in place in Upper Miocene to Lower Pliocene sediments of central Sicily (Kohring & Schluter, 1989).
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original chitin, amber
Collected by Maravigna
• Repository: Museum of Catania
Primary reference: F. E. Guérin-Méneville. 1838. Note sur la lettre de M. Maravigna sur les insectes trouvés dans l'ambre de la Sicile. Revue Zoologique, par La Société Cuverienne 1838:168-170 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153942: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.01.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Insecta | |
Scraptia ovata n. sp., Anaspis antica n. sp.
Scraptia ovata n. sp. Guérin-Méneville 1838 false flower beetle
Anaspis antica n. sp. Guérin-Méneville 1838 false flower beetle | |
Platypus maravignae n. sp.
Platypus maravignae n. sp. Guérin-Méneville 1838 ambrosia beetle | |