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
Collected by Jorge Caridad
• Repository: Museu de la Ciencia, Barcelona
Primary reference: M. L. de Andrade, C. Baroni Urbani, C. R. F. Brandão and J. Wagensberg. 1999. Two new species of Leptothorax "Nesomyrmex" fossils in Dominican amber. Beiträge zur Entomologie 49:133-140 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138937: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Brachygaster (Semaeomyia) dominicanus n. sp." = Semaeomyia dominicana2
"Brachygaster (Semaeomyia) dominicanus n. sp." = Semaeomyia dominicana2 Nel et al. 2002 ensign wasp MCAM 0168
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Technomyrmex caritatis n. sp.1 Brandão and Baroni Urbani 1999 ant MCCB-0050 "Jorge Caridad" (35 workers, 3 groups of eggs, 31 larvae, 18 pupae)
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