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The tuffaceous mudstones of the Khutsin Formation at the right side of Kudya River (a tributary of Amgu, or Amagu, or Granatovaya, in Terney District in the Maritime Province of the eastern Russia) have yielded some 500 fossil insects. The deposits were often dated as the Late Oligocene or Early Miocene, but currently are considered older, earlier in the Oligocene or even Late Eocene (ZHERIKHIN 1998).

The amber, similar to the Baltic one but claimed to be the Early Miocene in the age, comes from near Bitterfeld in Saxony, Germany. The fauna is also close to the Baltic one though most species described differ from that from the Baltic amber at least at the species level (BARTEL & HERTZER 1982, SCHUMANN & WENDT 1989, POINAR 1992, RÖSCHMANN 1999)

The fossilised resin of a leguminose tree Hymenaea, of the Early to Middle Miocene age, is been collecting in various sites of the Dominican Republic (ITURRALDE & MACPHEE 1996). Dominican arthropods are extremely numerous and diverse: the collection kept in the Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC, USA) comprises some 5,000 pieces, about 3,000 of them being studied more carefully have yielded more then 9,000 fossils (Rasnitsyn unpublished). The general appearance of the fauna is that of the average Central American tropical forest, except for a few exotic elements, and most species and some genera being extinct (POINAR 1992a, and references therein).

This resin was found in Merit- Pila coal-pit in central Sarawak, Malaysia. The coal belongs to the Nylau Formation (Early-Middle Miocene). Seven insect orders (mainly dipterans and hymenopterans), as well as spiders, mites, diplopods and chilopods have been recorded (HILMER et al. 1992).

The amber of probably the same botanical origin as the Dominican amber (LANGENHEIM 1966) and with the age of Late Oligocene or Early Miocene. It comes from a number of localities in the Simojovel area in the Mexican state Chiapas (HURD et al. 1962). The fossil fauna is rather similar to that of Dominican amber, although identical species are uncommon (POINAR 1992a).

Large collection of the Early Miocene (Burdigalian) insects from Radoboj in Croatia, was described long ago (e. g. HEER 1847-1853, 1867, etc.) and needs revision.