Dominican amber (Mullenmeister 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

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
 Araneae - Tetragnathidae
"Azilia muellenmeisteri n. sp." = Azilia hispaniolensis, Tetragnatha pristina
"Azilia muellenmeisteri n. sp." = Azilia hispaniolensis Wunderlich 1988 spider
SMF 38137
Tetragnatha pristina Schawaller 1982 stretch spider
 Araneae - Dictynidae
Hispaniolyna magna n. sp. Wunderlich 1988 spider
 Araneae - Philodromidae
Philodromidae indet. Thorell 1870 spider