Where: Germany (54.0° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 51.0° N, 6.7° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lutetian (48.6 - 40.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: amber

Collected by Scheele

Collection methods: surface (float)

• At Geologisches Staatsinstitut of Hamburg (Ross 1956), or at Geologisch-Palaontologisches Institut und Museum, Universitat Hamburg

Primary reference: M. S. Engel. 2001. A monograph of the Baltic amber bees and evolution of the Apoidea (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 259:1-192 [M. Clapham/A. Noshirvan] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123771: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Arram Noshirvan on 28.01.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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