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 Dr. James Truman, Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle

Primary reference: G. O. Poinar and J. A. Santiago-Blay. 1989. A fossil solpugid, Happlodontus proterus, new genus, new species (Arachnida: Solpugida) from Dominican amber. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 97:125-132 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146878: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.07.2013

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