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

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae
Tytthonyx (Tytthonyx) stadili n. sp. Fanti and Damgaard 2019
1 specimen
ALDC0529/ALD.Do.Can.1 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.6° North, 70.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.4° North, 69.6° 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,soft parts,original chitin,amber
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: collection of Anders Damgaard
Metadata
Database number:207501
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2020-01-13 23:34:48 Last modified:2020-01-13 23:34:48
Access level:the public Released:2020-01-13 23:34:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
71496. F. Fanti and A. L. Damgaard. 2019. New soldier beetles (Cantharidae) from Baltic, Burmese and Dominican ambers of the Anders Damgaard amber collection. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 19:101-125 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]