Dominican amber, La Toca (Work collection): Burdigalian - Langhian, Dominican Republic
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Gekkonidae
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Sphaerodactylus dommeli n. sp.
Bohme 1984
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Daza et al. 2014 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| ZFMK 66238 (holotype), an amber-embedded articulated specimen preserving the integument and nearly complete cranial and postcranial elements, tail vertebrae missing, possibly due to regeneration during life; SMNS Do–3584, a much smaller articulated specimen with autotomized tail. | ||||||||||
| Daza and Bauer 2012 | 1 specimen | |||||||||
| MCZR-186380 (holotype), amber-embedded, nearly complete skeleton with patches of integument. | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Eleutherodactylidae
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Eleutherodactylus sp.
Duméril and Bibron 1841
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Myriapoda
- Chilopoda
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Chilopoda indet.
Latreille 1817
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| "a large centipede" | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Diptera
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| "numerous fly maggots" | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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| Poinar 2002 | ||||||||||
| Staminate flower (Sd–9–101A), pistillate flower (Sd–9–101B) | ||||||||||
| Poinar 2002 | ||||||||||
| "flower" (4 measurements) | ||||||||||
| Poinar 2002 | ||||||||||
| Flower Sd–9–158 (Dominican amber) (7 measurements) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Dominican Republic |
| Coordinates: | 19.5° North, 70.7° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 20.7° North, 66.7° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | hand sample |
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: | El Mamey | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Older dates for Dominican amber were Upper Eocene or Oligocene, but it is now dated as Miocene. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandy "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | pebbly amber |
| Lithology description: "shale-sandstone interspersed with a conglomerate of well-rounded pebbles" | |
| Environment: | fluvial-deltaic indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,soft parts,amber |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Associated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: unnumbered specimen in the private collection of J. Work | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 75094 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Barrett, C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | J. Alroy, C. Martinez, T. Cleary |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-09-22 21:38:40 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-09-22 21:38:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25357. | G. O. Poinar, Jr. and D. C. Canatella. 1987. An upper Eocene frog from the Dominican Republic and its implication for Caribbean biogeography. Science 237:1215-1216 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 59605 | J. D. Daza and A. M. Bauer. 2012. A new amber-embedded sphaerodactyl gecko from Hispaniola, with comments on morphological synapomorphies of the Sphaerodactylidae. Breviora 529:1-28 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary] | |
| 59595 | J. D. Daza, A. M. Bauer, and E. D. Snively. 2014. On the fossil record of the Gekkota. The Anatomical Record 297:433-462 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary] | |
| 43548 | G. Poinar. 2002. Fossil palm flowers in Dominican and Mexican amber. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 138:57-61 [C. Jaramillo/C. Martinez] | |
| 43549 | G. Poinar. 2002. Fossil palm flowers in Dominican and Baltic amber. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 139(4):361-367 [C. Jaramillo/C. Martinez] |