Taimyr amber, Ugolyak (PIN collection 3631) (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (72.0° N, 101.3° E: paleocoordinates 69.7° N, 73.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kheta Formation, Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• Age is estimated as Late Santonian

Environment/lithology: fluvial; amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collected by I. Sukatsheva in 1977; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: L. Botosaneanu and W. Wichard. 1983. Upper Cretaceous Siberian and Canadian amber caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera). Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 53:187-217 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35055: authorized by Dena Smith, entered by April Kinchloe on 28.10.2003, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Mantodea -
Electromantis sukatshevae n. gen. n. sp.3
Electromantis sukatshevae n. gen. n. sp.3 Gratshev and Zherikhin 1993 mantis
PIN 3631/7
 Hemiptera - Canadaphididae
Canadaphis ugolyaki n. sp.5 Ogłaza and Wegierek 2024 aphid
PIN 3631/22
 Hymenoptera - Baeomorphidae
Baeomorpha quattoruno4 Gumovsky 2017 chalcid wasp
PIN 3631/31
 Trichoptera -
Calamodontus grandaevus n. gen. n. sp.
Calamodontus grandaevus n. gen. n. sp. Botosaneanu and Wichard 1983 caddisfly
PIN 3631/4
 Neuroptera - Sisyridae
Prosisyrina sp.6 Perkovsky and Makarkin 2015 spongillafly
PIN 3631/11
 Diptera - Simuliidae
Ugolyakia kaluginae n. gen. n. sp.7
Ugolyakia kaluginae n. gen. n. sp.7 Perkovsky and Sukhomlin 2018 black fly
PIN 3631/37, 34, 35
 Diptera - Cecidomyiidae
Ugolyakomyia rautianae n. gen. n. sp.2
Ugolyakomyia rautianae n. gen. n. sp.2 Fedotova and Perkovsky 2020 gall midge
PIN 3631/28
Arachnida
 Araneae -
Araneomorphae indet.1 Smith 1902 spider
 Araneae - Segestriidae
? Segestriidae indet.1 Simon 1893 tube-dwelling spider