Rovno amber (SMNS collection) (Eocene of Ukraine)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Likely roughly contemporaneous with late Eocene Baltic amber

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: amber

Reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: M. Olmi, B. Eggs, L. Capradossi, T. Kamp, E. E. Perkovsky, A. Guglielmino, and D. V. Vasilenko. 2022. A new species of Bocchus from upper Eocene Rovno amber (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 92:257-272 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 227091: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.09.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Dryinidae
Bocchus rex Olmi et al. 2022 wasp
SMNS UKR-1