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
Collection methods: Collection of George O. Poinar at Oregon State University (Corvallis)
Primary reference: A. Nel, A. Waller, and G. O. Poinar. 2006. The first fossil Myopsocidae (Psocoptera) in Dominican amber. Zootaxa 1349:63-68 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 124475: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.02.2012, edited by Jered Karr
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Agaricomycetes | |
Coprinites dominicana n. gen. n. sp.13
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Bdelloidea | |
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Insecta | |
Dominimyza tanyacaena n. gen. n. sp.7
Dominimyza tanyacaena n. gen. n. sp.7 Poinar 2014 marsh fly Poinar amber collection (accession # D-7-140)
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Culex malariager n. sp.4
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Supella dominicana n. sp.8
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Anaxipha dominica n. sp.16
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Proanaxipha latoca n. sp.16
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Myopsocus arthuri n. sp.
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Wanderbiltiana wawasita n. sp.15
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"Feroseta priscus n. gen. n. sp." = Feroseta prisca5
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Polyvena horatis n. gen. n. sp.9
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Pseudomyrmex antiquus n. sp.18
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Schizoptera dominicana n. sp.10
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Apicrenus fossilis n. gen. n. sp.1, Panstrongylus hispaniolae n. sp.6, Praecoris dominicana n. gen. n. sp.2
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Prisciba dominicana n. sp.11
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Diceratobasis worki n. sp.3
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Arachnida | |
Tityus geratus n. sp.14
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