Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 70.6° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 69.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Toca Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

• Older dates for Dominican amber were Upper Eocene or Oligocene, but it is now dated as Miocene.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: S. R. Davis and M. S. Engel. 2006. A weevil of the genus Caulophilus in Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 75:101-104 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 123393: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.01.2012, edited by Jered Karr

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