Dominican amber, Los Cacaos (INHS coll): Burdigalian - Langhian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Psocodea - Troctopsocidae
Troctopsocoides gracilis n. sp. Mockford and García Aldrete 2014
1 specimen
(2 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.2° North, 69.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.0° North, 68.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Collection method comments: Repository: Paleontology Collection of the Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, USA
Metadata
Database number:162585
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2014-09-29 23:57:57 Last modified:2014-09-29 23:57:57
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-29 23:57:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
52946. E. L. Mockford and A. N. García Aldrete. 2014. A new genus and two new species, one extant and one fossil, in the family Troctopsocidae (Psocodea: 'Psocoptera': Troctomorpha: Amphientometae: Electrentomoidea). Zootaxa 3869:159-164 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]