Dominican amber, Yanigua mine, El Valle region (Olmi collection) (Miocene to of Dominican Republic)

Where: Dominican Republic (19.6° N, 70.6° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 69.4° 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 155867: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Dryinidae
Thaumatodryinus miocenicus Olmi 1995 wasp
One paratype from unknown mine