Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 70.6° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 69.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• 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: collection of Amberica West in Colorado Springs, Colorado [AWCC], provided by Dr. Doug Lundberg
Primary reference: J. Háva and J. Prokop. 2004. New fossil dermestid-beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from the Dominican amber of the Greater Antilles, with an appendix listing known fossil species of this family. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 68:173-182 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 151363: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.09.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Insecta | |
Attagenus ambericus n. sp., Amberoderma beali n. gen. n. sp., Cryptorhopalum electron, Cryptorhopalum dominicanum n. sp., Cryptorhopalum ambericum n. sp., Cryptorhopalum jantaricum n. sp.
Attagenus ambericus n. sp. Háva and Prokop 2004 skin beetle
Amberoderma beali n. gen. n. sp. Háva and Prokop 2004 skin beetle
Cryptorhopalum electron Beal 1972 skin beetle
Cryptorhopalum dominicanum n. sp. Háva and Prokop 2004 skin beetle
Cryptorhopalum ambericum n. sp. Háva and Prokop 2004 skin beetle
Cryptorhopalum jantaricum n. sp. Háva and Prokop 2004 skin beetle | |