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

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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: Systematics and Evolution Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Anqing Normal University, Anhui Province (AQNU)

Primary reference: Q. L. Men and Z. K. Hu. 2020. A new species of Brachypremna (Diptera: Tipulidae) from Dominican amber, with a key of the genus to all fossil species. Zoological Systematics 45:236-240 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 212319: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.08.2020

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