Where: Dominican Republic (19.6° N, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 69.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

• Dominican Amber in general is "late Early to early Middle Miocene" (= Burdigalian to Langhian) following Iturralde-Vinent and MacPhee 1996

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts, amber

Collection methods: Southern Methodist University collection

Primary reference: M. J. Polcyn, J. V. Rogers II, Y. Kobayashi and L. L. Jacobs. 2002. Computed tomography of an Anolis lizard in Dominican amber: systematic, taphonomy, biogeographic, and evolutionary implications. Palaeontologia Electronica 5(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68338: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.01.2007

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