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

Collection methods: Museo del Ambar Dominicano, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

Primary reference: D. G. Manley and G. O. Poinar. 1991. A new species of fossil Dasymutilla (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from Dominican amber. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 67(3):200-205 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125506: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Amy Delelli on 12.03.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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