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: Repository: Illinois Natural History Survey
Primary reference: A. Wille and L. C. Chandler. 1964. A new stingless bee from the Tertiary amber of the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera; Meliponini). Revista de BiologĂa Tropical 12:187-195 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 139308: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Electrotettix attenboroughi n. gen. n. sp.
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"Trigona (Liotrigona) dominicana n. sp." = Proplebeia dominicana
"Trigona (Liotrigona) dominicana n. sp." = Proplebeia dominicana Wille and Chandler 1964 stingless bee |