Rovno Amber

Radchenko & Dlussky (2018) - The place of origin of various Late Eocene European ambers, in particular, Rovno and Baltic ambers, remains an important question. It was previously believed that the Rovno amber is redeposited Baltic amber (Katinas, 1971), but to date, it has become generally accepted by geologists that Rovno and Baltic ambers were formed independently at the same geological time, but in different territories (Maidanovich and Makarenko, 1988; Kosmowska- Ceranowicz, 2012; Karlovich and Prokopets, 2014). The last statement is corroborated by the composition of the myrmecofauna and some other insect groups (Perkovsky et al., 2003, 2010; Dlussky and Rasnitsyn, 2009; Perkovsky, 2013; Ivanov et al., 2016). In our opinion, the distributional pattern, abundance of representatives of Fallomyrma in Rovno, Scandinavian, and Bitterfeld ambers, and complete absence of this genus in the Baltic amber are evidence of independent origin of Rovno and Baltic ambers.