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

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Agaricomycetes - Agaricales - Agaricaceae
Poinar and Singer 1990 1 specimen
AF-9-11
Bdelloidea
Bdelloidea indet. Hudson 1884
Poinar and Ricci 1992 18 specimens
AF-9-11
Bdelloidea - Philodinida - Habrotrochidae
Habrotrocha sp. Bryce 1910
Waggoner and Poinar 1993 25 specimens
B-1-4
Arachnida - Scorpiones - Buthidae
Santiago-Blay and Poinar 1988 1 specimen
Insecta - Hemiptera - Schizopteridae
Poinar and Brown 2015 2 specimens
He-4-75B (4 measurements)
Insecta - Hemiptera - Reduviidae
Maldonado Capriles et al. 1993 1 specimen
Poinar 39842 (1 measurement)
Poinar 2013 1 specimen
He-4-81
Poinar 1991 1 specimen
(1 measurement)
Insecta - Hemiptera - Clastopteridae
Poinar et al. 2014 1 specimen
HO-4-63B
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Ward 1992 1 specimen
H-10-147 (PSW-DA21)
Insecta - Lepidoptera - Tortricidae
Poinar and Brown 1993 1 specimen
L-3-24 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Diptera - Sciomyzidae
Poinar 2014 1 specimen
Poinar amber collection (accession # D-7-140) (2 measurements)
Insecta - Diptera - Culicidae
Poinar 2005 1 specimen
D-7-6b
Insecta - Neuroptera - Mantispidae
Poinar 2006 1 specimen
N-4-16
Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Santiago-Blay et al. 1996 1 specimen
C-7-125 (1 measurement)
Santiago-Blay et al. 2004
Insecta - Psocodea - Myopsocidae
1 specimen
Ps-2-32 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Orthoptera - Gryllidae
Vickery and Poinar 1994 14 specimens
CAL 2, 4, 6, 7, 9-18 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Orthoptera - Trigonidiidae
Vickery and Poinar 1994 2 specimens
CAL 1, 8 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Blattodea - Pseudophyllodromiidae
Poinar 2022 1 specimen
Poinar O-2-43 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Odonata - Coenagrionidae
Poinar 1996 1 specimen
(3 measurements)
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
Collection method comments: Collection of George O. Poinar at Oregon State University (Corvallis)
Metadata
Database number:124475
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham, J. Karr
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-02-16 08:19:46 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-08-16 08:19:46
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
40185. A. Nel, A. Waller, and G. O. Poinar. 2006. The first fossil Myopsocidae (Psocoptera) in Dominican amber. Zootaxa 1349:63-68 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

51565 J. Maldonado Capriles, J. A. Santiago-Blay, and G. O. Poinar. 1993. Apicrenus fossilis gen. & sp. n. (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Apiomerinae) from Dominican amber (lower Oligocene-upper Eocene). Entomologica Scandinavica 24:139-142 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
45676 G. Poinar. 2005. Culex malariager, n. sp. (Diptera: Culicidae) from Dominican amber: the first fossil mosquito vector of Plasmodium. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 107:548-553 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
45677 G. Poinar. 2006. Feroseta priscus (Neuroptera: Mantispidae), a new genus and species of mantidflies in Dominican amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108:411-417 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
49461 G. Poinar. 2013. Panstrongylus hispaniolae sp. n. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae), a new fossil triatomine in Dominican amber, with evidence of gut flagellates. Palaeodiversity 6:1-8 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
84908 G. Poinar. 2022. Supella dominicana, a new species of cockroach (Blattida: Ectobiidae) with developed spermatids in Dominican amber. Biologia 78:1731-1738 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
54409 G. Poinar and A. Brown. 2015. New genera and species of jumping ground bugs (Hemiptera: Schizopteridae) in Dominican and Burmese amber, with a description of a meloid (Coleoptera: Meloidae) triungulin on a Burmese specimen. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 50:372-381 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
51562 G. O. Poinar. 1991. Praecoris dominicana gen. n., sp. n. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Holoptilinae) from Dominican amber, with an interpretation of past behaviour based on functional morphology. Entomologica Scandinavica 22:193-199 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
46753 G. O. Poinar. 1996. A fossil stalk-winged damselfly, Diceratobasis worki spec. nov., from Dominican Amber, with possible ovipositional behavior in tank bromeliads (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae). Odonatologica 25(4):381-385 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]
46334 G. O. Poinar. 2014. A snail-killing fly, Dominimyza tanyacaena n. gen., n. sp. (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) in Dominican amber. Historical Biology 26:428-432 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]
51566 G. O. Poinar and J. W. Brown. 1993. A new fossil tortricid (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from Dominican amber. Entomologica Scandinavica 24:25-29 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
49457 G. O. Poinar, K. G. A. Hamilton, and A. E. Brown. 2014. Prisciba, n. gen., and two new species of fossil froghoppers (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Clastopteridae) in Dominican amber. Historical Biology 26:1-5 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
66391 G. O. Poinar and C. Ricci. 1992. Bdelloid rotifers in Dominican amber: evidence for parthenogenetic continuity. Experientia 48:408-410 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
66393 G. O. Poinar and R. Singer. 1990. Upper Eocene gilled mushroom from the Dominican Republic. Science 248:1099-1101 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
56153 J. A. Santiago-Blay and G. O. Poinar. 1988. A fossil scorpion Tityus geratus new species (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Dominican amber. Historical Biology 1:345-354 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
5874ETE 1640J. A. Santiago-Blay, G. O. Poinar, and P. R. Craig. 1996. Dominican and Mexican amber chrysomelids, with descriptions of two new species. In P. H. A. Jolivet, M. L. Cox (eds.), Chrysomelid Biology, vol. 1: The Classification, Phylogeny and Genetics 413-424 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]
51149 J. A. Santiago-Blay, V. Savini, D. G. Furth, P. R. Craig, and G. O. Poinar. 2004. Wanderbiltiana wawasita: a new species of flea beetle (Alticinae) from Dominican amber (Lower Oligocene to Lower Miocene). In P. Jolivet, J. A. Santiago-Blay, M. Schmitt (eds.), New Developments in the Biology of Chrysomelidae 275-277 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
5202ETE 914V. R. Vickery and G. O. Poinar. 1994. Crickets (Grylloptera: Grylloidea) in Dominican amber. The Canadian Entomologist 126:13-22 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]
66392 B. M. Waggoner and G. O. Poinar. 1993. Fossil habrotrochid rotifers in Dominican amber. Experientia 49:354-357 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
44631 P. S. Ward. 1992. Ants of the genus Pseudomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Dominican amber, with a synopsis of the extant Antillean species. Psyche 99:55-85 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]