Where: Dominican Republic (19.2° N, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.0° N, 68.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Toca 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: Paleontology Collection of the Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, USA

Primary reference: E. L. Mockford and A. N. García Aldrete. 2014. A new genus and two new species, one extant and one fossil, in the family Troctopsocidae (Psocodea: 'Psocoptera': Troctomorpha: Amphientometae: Electrentomoidea). Zootaxa 3869:159-164 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 162585: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.09.2014

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