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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Trichelyon tadkeshwarense n. gen. n. sp.10
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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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Spiloconis eominuta n. sp.6
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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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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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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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Nanotermes isaacae n. gen. n. sp.3
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Kumarembia hurleyi n. gen. n. sp.
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Ceratopogonidae indet.14, Forcipomyia sp.14, Serromyia sp.14, Camptopterohelea odora n. sp.15, Gedanohelea gerdesorum n. sp.14, Mantohelea sp.14, Brachypogon sp.14, Eohelea indica n. sp.14, Stilobezzia sp.14, Meunierohelea cambayana n. sp.14, Meunierohelea aff. cambayana14, Meunierohelea orientalis n. sp.14, Meunierohelea borkenti n. sp.14, Leptoconops 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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Dolichopodidae indet.1, Diaphorinae indet.1, Palaeomedeterus sp.1, Palaeomedeterus cambayensis n. sp.1, Rajpardia grimaldii n. gen. n. sp.1, Sympycninae indet.1, Medeterinae indet.1, Gujaratmyia rotunda n. gen. n. sp.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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Pareuthychaeta eoindica n. sp.7
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Palaeognoriste orientale n. sp.13, Indorrhina sahnii n. gen. n. sp.13, Lygistorrhina indica n. sp.13
Palaeognoriste orientale n. sp.13 Stebner and Grimaldi 2017 long beaked fungus gnat BSIP Tad-887, AMNH Tad-587, Tad-37A, Tad-324
Lygistorrhina indica n. sp.13 Stebner and Grimaldi 2017 long beaked fungus gnat BSIP Tad-442, AMNH Tad-492, Tad-888
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Stempellina stebneri n. sp.19, Stempellinella pollex n. sp.19, Gujaratomyia miripes n. gen. n. sp.20, Tanytarsus spp.19, Tanytarsus ramus n. sp.19, Tanytarsus forfex 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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Sycorax longistyla n. sp.17
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Arachnida | |
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Paracharonopsis cambayensis n. gen. n. sp.2
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