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: private collection of Yale Goldman
Primary reference: D. S. Hibbett, M. Binder, Z. Wang and Y. Goldman. 2003. Another fossil agaric from Dominican amber. Mycologia 95:685-687 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 195169: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Agaricomycetes | |
Aureofungus yaniguaensis n. gen. n. sp.
Aureofungus yaniguaensis n. gen. n. sp. Hibbett et al. 2003 gilled mushroom |