Dominican amber (ISEA Novosibirsk coll) (Miocene to of Dominican Republic)

Where: Dominican Republic (19.6° N, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 69.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• 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: Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals (Novosibirsk, Russia)

Primary reference: G. Poinar and A. A. Legalov. 2015. Two new species of the genus Rhynchitobius Sharp, 1889 (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae) in Dominican amber. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 51:70-77 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174416: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Attelabidae
Rhynchitobius (Hamiltoniauletes) xuthocolus n. sp. Poinar and Legalov 2015 tooth-nosed snout weevil
ISEA DA 2013/1
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Anthonomus (Anthonomus) clarki n. sp.1 Legalov 2019 snout beetle
ISEZh DA2014/1
Derelomus miocaenicus n. sp.1 Legalov 2019 snout beetle
ISEZh DA2018/2
Mesocordylus dominicus n. sp.1 Legalov 2019 snout beetle
ISEZh DA2016/1
Compsus (Compsus) poinari n. sp.1 Legalov 2019 snout beetle
ISEZh DA2018/1
 Coleoptera - Anthribidae
Choragus exsertus2 Poinar and Legalov 2016 fungus weevil
ISEA DA 2013/1 (presumably syninclusion with R. xuthocolus)
Piesocorynus bibullus n. sp.2 Poinar and Legalov 2016 fungus weevil
ISEA DA 2015/1