Dominican amber, La Toca mine (SMF coll): Burdigalian - Langhian, Dominican Republic
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Arachnida
- Araneae
- Theridiidae
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Dipoena dominicana n. sp.
Wunderlich 1986
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Wunderlich 1986 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Insecta
- Hymenoptera
- Formicidae
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Acropyga sp.
Roger 1862
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Insecta
- Hemiptera
- Rhizoecidae
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Electromyrmococcus abductus n. gen., n. sp.
Williams 2001
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Dominican Republic |
| Coordinates: | 19.5° North, 70.6° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.4° North, 69.5° West |
| 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: | 20.44 - 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: | SMF |
| Collection method comments: Collected by M. von Tschirnhaus, reposited in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt
am Main, Germany. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 124596 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | A. Delelli, A. Louderback, M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2012-02-20 06:43:21 | Last modified: | 2014-04-28 18:25:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-02-20 06:43:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 40600. | C. Johnson, D. Agosti, J. H. Delabie, K. Dumpert, D. J. Williams, M. Tschirnhaus, and U. Maschwitz. 2001. Acropyga and Azteca ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with scale insects (Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea): 20 million years of intimate symbiosis. American Museum Novitates 3335:1-18 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 40287 | S. Podenas and G. O. Poinar. 2001. New crane flies (Diptera: Tipulidae, Limoniidae) from Dominican and Mexican amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 103(4):863-878 [M. Clapham/A. Delelli/M. Clapham] | |
| 47891 | J. Wunderlich. 1986. Spinnenfauna Gestern und Heute. Fossile Spinnen in Bernstein und ihre heute lebenden Verwandten 1-283 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |