Where: Dominican Republic (19.6° N, 70.6° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 69.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

• Age controversial, with the youngest proposed age of 20-15 mya based on foraminifera and the oldest as 45-30 mya based on coccoliths. Most of the amber is secondarily deposited in turbiditic sandstones.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Fossil Insect Collection, Division of Entomology, University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence, Kansas

Primary reference: J. Batelka, M. S. Engel, Z. H. Falin and J. Prokop. 2011. Two new ripidiine species in Dominican amber with evidence of aggregative behaviour of males frozen in the fossil record (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae). European Journal of Entomology 108:275-286 [M. Clapham/A. Delelli]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123708: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Amy Delelli on 27.01.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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