PBDB Collection

Dominican amber (Lyman Museum collection) (Miocene to of Dominican Republic)

Where: Dominican Republic (19.6° N, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 69.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

• Dominican Amber in general is "late Early to early Middle Miocene" (= Burdigalian to Langhian) following Iturralde-Vinent and MacPhee 1996

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: Lyman Entomological Museum, McGill University, Montreal

Primary reference: V. R. Vickery and G. O. Poinar. 1994. Crickets (Grylloptera: Grylloidea) in Dominican amber. The Canadian Entomologist 126:13-22 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140930: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
Orthoptera - Trigonidiidae	Anaxipha dominica, Abanaxipha longispina n. gen. n. sp., Abanaxipha incongrua n. sp. Anaxipha dominica Vickery and Poinar 1994 grasshopper LEM 10956 Abanaxipha longispina n. gen. n. sp. Vickery and Poinar 1994 grasshopper LEM 10950 (El Valle) Abanaxipha incongrua n. sp. Vickery and Poinar 1994 grasshopper LEM 10954 (La Toca)
Orthoptera - Mogoplistidae	Ornebius ambericus n. sp. Ornebius ambericus n. sp. Vickery and Poinar 1994 scaly cricket LEM 10953 (La Toca)
Orthoptera - Gryllidae	Proanaxipha bicolorata n. sp., Proanaxipha latoca, Grossoxipha yaque n. gen. n. sp. Proanaxipha bicolorata n. sp. Vickery and Poinar 1994 true crickets LEM 10946 Proanaxipha latoca Vickery and Poinar 1994 true crickets LEM 10948, 10951, 10952, 10955, 10955A Grossoxipha yaque n. gen. n. sp. Vickery and Poinar 1994 true crickets LEM 10945