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

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Phasmatodea
1 specimen
O-2-43
Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Poinar and Legalov 2014 1 specimen
C-7-413 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Diptera - Streblidae
Streblidae indet. Kolenati 1863
Poinar 2011 1 specimen
Poinar and Brown 2012
D-7-239
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Encyrtidae
Poinar 2020 1 specimen
D-Hy-10-52 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Evaniidae
Poinar 2020 1 specimen
D-Hy-10-196
Poinar 2020 1 specimen
D-Hy-10-197 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Hemiptera - Clastopteridae
Poinar et al. 2014 1 specimen
HO-4-63A
Insecta - Hemiptera - Cicadidae
Poinar et al. 2012 1 specimen
HO-4-62
Insecta - Hemiptera - Schizopteridae
Poinar and Brown 2015 1 specimen
He-4-75A (2 measurements)
Poinar and Brown 2015 1 specimen
He-4-75C (2 measurements)
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: Collection of George O. Poinar at Oregon State University (Corvallis)
Metadata
Database number:134455
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-10-09 07:24:35 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-10-09 07:24:35
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
43237. G. Poinar. 2011. A walking stick, Clonistria dominicana n. sp. (Phasmatodea: Diapheromeridae) in Dominican amber. Historical Biology 23:223-226 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

78511 G. Poinar. 2020. Ensign wasps (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae) in Dominican and Mexican amber. Historical Biology 33:2560-2576 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
86030 G. Poinar. 2020. New species of Hambletonia Compere (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) in Dominican amber. Biosis: Biological Systems 1:164-167 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
45680 G. Poinar and A. Brown. 2012. The first fossil streblid bat fly, Enischnomyia stegosoma n. g., n. sp. (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea: Streblidae). Systematic Parasitology 81:79-86 [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]
43234 G. Poinar, G. Kritsky, and A. Brown. 2012. Minyscapheus dominicanus n. gen., n. sp. (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), a fossil cicada in Dominican amber. Historical Biology 24:329-333 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
45679 G. O. Poinar. 2011. Vetufebrus ovatus n. gen., n. sp. (Haemospororida: Plasmodiidae) vectored by a streblid bat fly (Diptera: Streblidae) in Dominican amber. Parasites & Vectors 4(229):1-5 [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]
51532 G. O. Poinar and A. A. Legalov. 2014. Bicalcasura maculata n. gen., n. sp. (Curculionoidea: Dryophthoridae) with a list of weevils described from Dominican amber. Historical Biology 26:449-453 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]