Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° 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)
• 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
Reposited in the MCZ
Primary reference: E. O. Wilson. 1985. Ants of the Dominican Amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) 3. The Subfamily Dolichoderinae. Psyche 92(1):17-37 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138700: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Azteca alpha, "Hypoclinea primitiva" = Dolichoderus primitivus, "Iridomyrmex hispaniolae" = Technomyrmex hispaniolae, Anochetus brevidentatus n. sp.3, "Exocryptocerus serratus" = Cephalotes serratus4, Cephalotes squamosus1, Pheidole tethepa n. sp.5, "Leptothorax caritatis n. sp." = Nesomyrmex caritatis2
"Hypoclinea primitiva" = Dolichoderus primitivus Wilson 1985 ant
"Iridomyrmex hispaniolae" = Technomyrmex hispaniolae Wilson 1985 ant 27 specimens from all collections but not divided
"Exocryptocerus serratus" = Cephalotes serratus4 Vierbergen and Scheven 1995 ant MCZC-2,11 (paratypes); 9,13,16 in de Andrade & Baroni Urbani
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