Rovno Amber, Klesov locality (Museum of the Earth collection) (Eocene of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (51.3° N, 26.9° E: paleocoordinates 50.6° N, 22.3° 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

Collected by Andrzej Wiszniewski

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: Muzeum Ziemi Polskiej Akademii Nauk (Museum of the Earth of the Polish Academy of Sciences), Warsaw, Poland (MZ)

Primary reference: J. Kupryjanowicz and V. N. Makarkin. 2008. Archiconiocompsa prisca Enderlein (Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae): The first neuropteran fossil in Rovno amber (Ukraine). Entomologica Fennica 19:25-31 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132371: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.08.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Saldidae
Pentacora sp.3 Reuter 1912 shore bug
MZ 24001
 Hemiptera - Tingidae
"Sinalda cf. baltica" = Parasinalda baltica1
"Sinalda cf. baltica" = Parasinalda baltica1 Drake 1950 lace bug
MZ 23985 (nymph stage IV)
 Hemiptera - Lyctocoridae
Lyctoferus kupryjanowiczi n. sp.2 Popov 2003 true bug
MZ 23986
 Hemiptera - Piesmatidae
Heissiana serafini3 Popov 2001 ash grey leaf bug
MZ 24713
 Neuroptera - Coniopterygidae
Archiconiocompsa prisca Enderlein 1910 dustywing
MZ 24667