Dominican amber (University of California, Berkeley coll.) (Miocene to of Dominican Republic)

Where: Dominican Republic (19.6° N, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 69.6° 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

Collected by J. Brodzinsky

Primary reference: G. B. Fairchild. 1989. A second species of fossil Stenotabanus (Diptera: Tabanidae)in amber from the Dominican Republic. Florida Entomologist 72(4):630-632 [M. Clapham/A. Delelli]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124522: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Amy Delelli on 17.02.2012, edited by Arram Noshirvan

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Tabanidae
Stenotabanus brodzinskyi n. sp.1
Stenotabanus brodzinskyi n. sp.1 Lane and Poinar 1988 horse fly
D-7-101
 Hymenoptera - Crabronidae
Trypoxylon pallidiventre n. sp.2, Trypoxylon dominicanum n. sp.2, Trypoxylon eucharis n. sp.2
Trypoxylon pallidiventre n. sp.2 Prentice and Poinar 1993 apoid wasp
H-10-54
Trypoxylon dominicanum n. sp.2 Prentice and Poinar 1993 apoid wasp
Trypoxylon eucharis n. sp.2 Prentice and Poinar 1993 apoid wasp
H-10-57
1Lane and Poinar 1988; 2Prentice and Poinar 1993