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: Musée d’Histoire Naturelle et d’Ethnographie, Colmar, France (MHNE)

Primary reference: C. Jouault and A. Nel. 2022. A new Cryptotermes species (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) from the Miocene amber of Dominican Republic. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 58:222-228 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228917: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.01.2023

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