Dominican amber, La Vega group of mines (AMNH coll): Burdigalian - Langhian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Hemiptera - Enicocephalidae
Enicocephalus prius n. sp. Grimaldi et al. 1993
1 specimen
AMNH 11835 (1 measurement)
see common names

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:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Metadata
Database number:140223
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2013-03-05 17:01:55 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-05 17:01:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
5190.ETE 902D. A. Grimaldi, C. Michalski, and K. Schmidt. 1993. Amber fossil Enicocephalidae (Heteroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Lebanon and Oligo-Miocene of the Dominican Republic, with biogeographic analysis of Enicocephalus. American Museum Novitates 3071:1-30 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]