Where: Dominican Republic (19.0° N, 69.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.8° N, 68.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Yanigua Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)
• Older dates for Dominican amber were Upper Eocene or Oligocene, but it is now dated as Miocene.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber
Collection methods: Repository: collection of George Poinar at Oregon State University, Corvallis
Primary reference: W. Mohrig and F. Röschmann. 2005. Sciarid flies from Dominican amber (Diptera, Sciaridae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 55:319-361 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 155411: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.04.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Electrobates spinipes n. gen. n. sp.
Electrobates spinipes n. gen. n. sp. Andersen and Poinar 1992 water strider | |
Archicratyna arcana n. sp.
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