Dominican amber, La Toca mine (AMNH coll): Burdigalian - Langhian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Lepidoptera - Tortricidae
Heikkilä et al. 2018 1 specimen
AMNH DR8-43
Insecta - Diptera - Scatopsidae
Amorim 1998 1 specimen
AMNH DR-5-80
Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Szadziewski and Grogan 1998 1 specimen
AMNH 11758
Szadziewski and Grogan 1998 1 specimen
AMNH 11749
Insecta - Coleoptera - Nitidulidae
Powell and Cline 2021 1 specimen
(1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Cognato 2013 1 specimen
AMNH DR-10723 (1 measurement)
1 specimen
AMNH DR-10-568
Insecta - Coleoptera - Ptinidae
Mynhardt and Philips 2013 1 specimen
AMNH DR2013-1
Insecta - Hemiptera - Reduviidae
Popov 1993 1 specimen
AMNH DR 11308 B
Insecta - Hemiptera - Cydnidae
Thomas 1994 1 specimen
AMNH DR-10-22
Insecta - Hemiptera - Enicocephalidae
Grimaldi et al. 1993 1 specimen
AMNH DR-10-74 (1 measurement)
Grimaldi et al. 1993 1 specimen
AMNH DR-8-369 (1 measurement)
Grimaldi et al. 1993 1 specimen
AMNH 11334
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.5° North, 70.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.8° North, 66.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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: 20.45 - 13.82 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:La Toca
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Older dates for Dominican amber were Upper Eocene or Oligocene, but it is now dated as Miocene.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: amber
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,soft parts,original chitin,amber
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Metadata
Database number:123393
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham, J. Karr
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-01-20 15:18:48 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-01-20 15:18:48
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
39531. S. R. Davis and M. S. Engel. 2006. A weevil of the genus Caulophilus in Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 75:101-104 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

45131 D. S. Amorim. 1998. Amber fossil Scatopsidae (Diptera: Psychodomorpha). I. Considerations on described taxa, Procolobostema roseni, new species, from Dominican Amber, and the position of Procolobostema in the family. American Museum Novitates 3227:1-17 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
48583 A. I. Cognato. 2013. Electroborus brighti: the first Hylesinini bark beetle described from Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). The Canadian Entomologist 145:501-508 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
5190ETE 902D. A. Grimaldi, C. Michalski, and K. Schmidt. 1993. Amber fossil Enicocephalidae (Heteroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Lebanon and Oligo-Miocene of the Dominican Republic, with biogeographic analysis of Enicocephalus. American Museum Novitates 3071:1-30 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]
65003 M. Heikkilä, J. W. Brown, J. Baixeras, W. Mey, and M. V. Kozlov. 2018. Re-examining the rare and the lost: a review of fossil Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 4394:41-60 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
49463 G. Mynhardt and T. K. Philips. 2013. A third new genus and species of spider beetle, Okamninus annae n. gen., n. sp. (Coleoptera: Ptinidae), from Dominican amber. Palaeodiversity 6:23-28 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
5200ETE 912Y. A. Popov. 1993. A new genus of Emesinae from Dominican amber (Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 35(3):435-443 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]
76193 G. S. Powell and A. R. Cline. 2021. The first Cillaeinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) described from amber. Annales Zoologici 71:21-26 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
45712 R. Szadziewski and W. L. Grogan. 1998. Biting midges from Dominican amber. IV. Species of the tribes Dasyheleini and Forcipomyiini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 67:255-290 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
40223 D. B. Thomas. 1994. Fossil Cydnidae (Heteroptera) in the Dominican Amber. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 102(3):303-309 [M. Clapham/A. Noshirvan]