Rovno amber (Skartveit coll) (Eocene of Ukraine)

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

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Likely roughly contemporaneous with late Eocene Baltic amber

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Repository: collection of J. Skartveit, to be deposited at SDEI

Primary reference: J. Skartveit. 2021. A new fossil species of the genus Bibio, with an update on bibionid flies from Baltic and Rovno amber (Diptera, Bibionidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 68:81-99 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 217199: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.01.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Bibionidae
Plecia hoffeinsorum Skartveit 2009 love bug
JS-Baltic-008