Rovno Amber (Wunderlich collection) (Eocene of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (50.6° N, 26.3° E: paleocoordinates 49.8° N, 21.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Likely roughly contemporaneous with late Eocene Baltic amber

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: amber

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: collection of J. Wunderlich (may be deposited in Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt later).

Primary reference: J. Wunderlich. 2004. Fossil spiders (Araneae) in Early Tertiary amber from the Ukraine. In J. Wunderlich (ed.), Beiträge zur Araneologie 3:1821-1829 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172372: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.08.2015

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Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Araneae - Trochanteriidae
Sosybius sp. Koch and Berendt 1854 spider
F1358/UB/AR/TRO/CJW
 Araneae - Mysmenidae
"Mysmeninae indet." = Mysmenidae
"Mysmeninae indet." = Mysmenidae Petrunkevitch 1928 spurred orb-weaver
F793/CJW