Where: Ethiopia (10.1° N, 39.1° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° N, 37.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Originally assigned a Late Cenomanian age, but early Miocene according to conference abstract by Perrichot et al. (2018). Coty et al. argue for Cenozoic age as well. There is a Cenozoic sandstone intercalated between Quaternary and late Miocene basalts. As the amber is purchased, the exact stratigraphic horizon is uncertain. Amber maturity and fossil content suggests young Cenozoic age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, amber

Collection methods: Repository: private collection of Jorg Wunderlich

Primary reference: J. Wunderlich. 2017. Description of a derived spider taxon in Ethiopian amber (Araneae: Salticidae). Ten Papers on Fossil and Extant Spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 10:280-284 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198601: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.12.2018

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