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
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Insecta
- Hemiptera
- Enicocephalidae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| AMNH 11835 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
| 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: | 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: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-03-05 17:01:55 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5190. | ETE 902 | D. 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] |