Dominican amber, El Valle locality (Poinar collection): Burdigalian - Langhian, Dominican Republic
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Hemiptera
- Gerridae
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Electrobates spinipes n. gen., n. sp.
Andersen and Poinar 1992
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Andersen and Poinar 1992 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
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Insecta
- Diptera
- Sciaridae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| D-A-Sci.17 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Dominican Republic |
| Coordinates: | 19.0° North, 69.5° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 20.2° North, 65.5° 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: | Yanigua | ||||
| 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: Repository: collection of George Poinar at Oregon State University, Corvallis | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 155411 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2014-04-11 22:01:25 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-04-11 22:01:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 50726. | W. Mohrig and F. Röschmann. 2005. Sciarid flies from Dominican amber (Diptera, Sciaridae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 55:319-361 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 52702 | N. M. Andersen and G. O. Poinar. 1992. Phylogeny and classification of an extinct water strider genus (Hemiptera, Gerridae) from Dominican amber, with evidence of mate guarding in a fossil insect. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionforschung 30:256-267 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |