Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 70.6° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 69.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: La Toca Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)
• Older dates for Dominican amber were Upper Eocene or Oligocene, but it is now dated as Miocene.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber
Reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: D. A. Grimaldi, C. Michalski, and K. Schmidt. 1993. Amber fossil Enicocephalidae (Heteroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Lebanon and Oligo-Miocene of the Dominican Republic, with biogeographic analysis of Enicocephalus. American Museum Novitates 3071:1-30 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140223: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Enicocephalus prius n. sp.
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