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: private collection of J.M. Perez, a fossil dealer who intends to sell the specimen. Engel and Grimaldi do not name the species until the specimen is deposited in a permanent collection.

Primary reference: J. C. Cokendolpher and G. O. Poinar. 1992. Tertiary harvestmen from Dominican Republic amber. Bulletin of British Arachnological Society 9:53-56 [M. Clapham/A. Benabbas/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140194: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.03.2013

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