Dominican amber (IZAS coll): Burdigalian - Langhian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Coleoptera - Hybosoridae
Ceratocanthus huarongii n. sp. Lu et al. 2022
1 specimen
IZAS 2016-H-Col-015 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.6° North, 70.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.4° North, 69.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Burdigalian - Langhian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Burdigalian - Langhian
Age range of interval: 20.44 - 13.82 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 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.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: amber
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,amber
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZAS), Beijing, China
Metadata
Database number:226931
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2022-08-10 16:16:51 Last modified:2022-08-10 16:16:51
Access level:the public Released:2022-08-10 16:16:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
82374. Y. Y. Lu, A. Ballerio, S. Wang, Z. T. Zou, S. N. Gorb, T. Wang, L. L. Li, S. Ji, Z. Y. Zhao, S. Li, Y. J. Tong, Y. D. Chen, D. Zuo, C. H. Luo, W. W. Zhang, N. Liu, Q. Gu and M. Bai. 2022. The evolution of conglobation in Ceratocanthinae. Communications Biology 5(777) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]