Where: Dominican Republic (19.0° N, 69.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.8° N, 68.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Yanigua Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: amber
Collection methods: Repository: collection of M. Olmi at Dipartimento di Protezione delle plante, Viterbo
Primary reference: M. Olmi. 1995. Dryinids and embolemids in amber (Hymenoptera Dryinidae et Embolemidae). Redia 78:253-271 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 155866: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Thaumatodryinus miocenicus n. sp.
Thaumatodryinus miocenicus n. sp. Olmi 1995 wasp |