Dominican amber (MCCB/MCAM collection) (Miocene to of Dominican Republic)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: Museu de la Ciencia, Fundacio "la Caiza", Barcelona; later Museu de la Ciència Ambre, CosmoCaixa.

Primary reference: M. L. de Andrade and C. Baroni Urbani. 1999. Diversity and adaptation in the ant genus Cephalotes, past and present. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 271:1-889 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124282: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Amy Delelli on 10.02.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Blattodea - Mastotermitidae
Mastotermes electrodominicus4
Mastotermes electrodominicus4 Krishna and Grimaldi 1991 termite
 Blattodea - Rhinotermitidae
Dolichorhinotermes dominicanus n. sp.3
Dolichorhinotermes dominicanus n. sp.3 Schlemmermeyer and Cancello 2000 termite
MCFC 248
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Cephalotes integerrimus
Cephalotes integerrimus Vierbergen and Scheven 1995 ant
MCCB 0025
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Cladoctonus ruber2, Cenocephalus spinatus2, Cenocephalus rhinoceroide2, Cenocephalus exquisitus2
Cladoctonus ruber2 Bright and Poinar 1994 bark beetle
MCAM-0034
Cenocephalus spinatus2 Bright and Poinar 1994 ambrosia beetle
MCAM-0590
Cenocephalus rhinoceroide2 Schawaller 1981 ambrosia beetle
MCAM-0530
Cenocephalus exquisitus2 Bright and Poinar 1994 ambrosia beetle
MCAM-0034(x23), 0623(x3)
 Coleoptera - Cerambycidae
Paleohemilophus dominicanus n. gen. n. sp.1
Paleohemilophus dominicanus n. gen. n. sp.1 Martins and Galileo 1999 longhorned beetle
MCCB-194
1Martins and Galileo 1999; 2Peris et al. 2015; 3Schlemmermeyer and Cancello 2000; 4Wier et al. 2002