Also known as ETE Locality 799
Where: Dominican Republic (19.6° N, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 69.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-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 classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber
Reposited in the MCZ
• Specimens in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, Harvard). ETE reference list: 483, 482, 481, 480, 478, 477
Primary reference: W. P. MacKay. 1991. Anochetus brevidentatus, new species, a second fossil Odontomachiti ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 99:138-140 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 21978: authorized by Conrad Labandeira, entered by Conrad Labandeira on 09.06.1998, edited by Amy Delelli and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Proceratium dominicanum1, Proceratium poinari1, Platythyrea pumilio n. sp.4, "Iridomyrmex hispaniolae" = Technomyrmex hispaniolae11, "Tapinoma trochis n. sp." = Tapinoma troche11, "Hypoclinea primitiva n. sp." = Dolichoderus primitivus11, "Monacis caribbaea n. sp." = Dolichoderus caribbaeus11, "Monacis prolaminata" = Dolichoderus prolaminatus11, "Iridomyrmex humiloides n. sp." = Gracilidris humiloides11, "Camponotus neotropicus" = Leptomyrmex neotropicus11, Azteca eumeces11, Azteca alpha n. sp.11, Zatania electra6, Paraponera sp.12, Pseudomyrmex macrops n. sp.8, Pseudomyrmex thecolor n. sp.8, Pseudomyrmex prioris n. sp.8, Pseudomyrmex succinus n. sp.8, Pseudomyrmex vicinus8, Pseudomyrmex baros n. sp.8, Pseudomyrmex avitus8, Pseudomyrmex oryctus n. sp.8, Pseudomyrmex nexilis n. sp.8, Ilemomyrmex caecus n. gen. n. sp.9, "Exocryptocerus jansei" = Cephalotes jansei7, "Zacryptocerus squamosus" = Cephalotes squamosus7, "Zacryptocerus pseudoaztecus" = Cephalotes squamosus7, Cephalotes integerrimus5, "Zacryptocerus obscurus n. sp." = Cephalotes obscurus7, Cyphomyrmex taino n. sp.3, Cylindromyrmex electrinus n. sp.2, Neivamyrmex ectopus n. sp.10
"Zacryptocerus squamosus" = Cephalotes squamosus7 Vierbergen and Scheven 1995 ant MCZC-1,5,6,7,12,14,20,21,22,23 (9 in de Andrade & Baroni Urbani)
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