Where: Dominican Republic (19.6° N, 70.6° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 69.5° 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 H. Sturm, Hildesheim University, Germany
Primary reference: L. F. Mendes. 1997. First contribution to the study of the Dominican amber Zygentoma (Insecta). Family Ateluridae. Pedobiologia 41:40-43 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140497: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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