Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 70.6° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 69.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: collection of M. Ulitzka

Primary reference: M. R. Ulitzka. 2019. A new species of Chiridurothrips Okajima from Miocene amber of the Dominican Republic (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae). Zootaxa 4686:140-144 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205730: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.10.2019

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