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
Reposited in the SMF
• Collection of H. J. Mullenmeister (later donated to SMF)
Primary reference: J. Wunderlich. 1988. Die fossilen Spinnen im dominikanischen Bernstein. Beiträge zur Araneologie 2:1-378 [M. Clapham/A. Louderback]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 146562: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Annabelle Louderback on 27.06.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Arachnida | |
"Azilia muellenmeisteri n. sp." = Azilia hispaniolensis, Tetragnatha pristina
Tetragnatha pristina Schawaller 1982 stretch spider | |
Hispaniolyna magna n. sp.
Hispaniolyna magna n. sp. Wunderlich 1988 spider | |
Philodromidae indet. Thorell 1870 spider |