Dominican amber (Ron Cauble coll): Burdigalian - Langhian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Enoplea - Rhabditida
Poinar 2011 1 specimen
Cauble D 010
Insecta - Coleoptera - Brentidae
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.2° North, 70.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.5° North, 66.7° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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
Collection method comments: Deposited in the amber collection of Ron Cauble, the Bone Room, Berkeley, CA
Metadata
Database number:134457
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-10-09 08:19:39 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-10-09 08:19:39
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
43239. G. Poinar. 2009. Dominibrentus leptus, n. gen., n. sp. (Curculionoidea, Brentidae, Cyphagoginae, Dominibrentini, n. tribe), a straight-snouted weevil in Dominican amber. Historical Biology 21:51-55 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

54969 G. O. Poinar. 2011. The Evolutionary History of Nematodes: As Revealed in Stone, Amber and Mummies 1-429 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]