Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 70.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 20.7° N, 66.7° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: El Mamey Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)
• Older dates for Dominican amber were Upper Eocene or Oligocene, but it is now dated as Miocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; sandy shale and pebbly amber
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: soft parts, amber
Collection methods: unnumbered specimen in the private collection of J. Work
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 75094: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 22.09.2007, edited by Camila Martinez and Terri Cleary
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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Eleutherodactylus sp. Duméril and Bibron 1841 frog | |
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Sphaerodactylus ciguapa n. sp.1 Daza and Bauer 2012 round-fingered gecko MCZR-186380 (holotype), amber-embedded, nearly complete skeleton with patches of integument.
Sphaerodactylus dommeli n. sp.2 Bohme 1984 round-fingered gecko 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.
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| Roystonea | |
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| Palaeoraphe dominicana | |
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