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 | |
Rhynchitobius (Hamiltoniauletes) xuthocolus n. sp. Poinar and Legalov 2015 tooth-nosed snout weevil ISEA DA 2013/1
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Anthonomus (Anthonomus) clarki n. sp.1, Derelomus miocaenicus n. sp.1, Mesocordylus dominicus n. sp.1, Compsus (Compsus) poinari n. sp.1
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Choragus exsertus2 Poinar and Legalov 2016 fungus weevil ISEA DA 2013/1 (presumably syninclusion with R. xuthocolus)
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