ammonites
Baltic Amber, Danziger Naturkundemuseum Menge collection (Eocene of Poland)

Where: Poland (54.5° N, 18.5° E: paleocoordinates 51.7° N, 13.6° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lutetian (48.6 - 40.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: amber

Collected by Menge in 1866

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: Westpreußischen Provinzial-Museums (= Museum für Naturkunde und Vorgeschichte, WPM)

Primary reference: G. Ulmer. 1912. Die Trichopteren des baltischen Bernsteins. Beiträge zur Naturkunde Preussens 10:1-380 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120811: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 21.11.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham and Amy Delelli

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