Colombian copal (Bukejs coll) (Holocene of Colombia)

Where: Santander, Colombia (6.5° N, 73.5° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° N, 73.5° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: amber

Collection methods: Repository: private collection of Andris Bukejs (ABDL, Daugavpils, Latvia).

Primary reference: G. Poinar, A. Bukejs, and A. A. Legalov. 2017. First records of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Quaternary Colombian copal. Revista Colombiana de Entomologia 43:85-90 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188956: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.09.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Stenommatus copalicus n. sp. Poinar et al. 2017 snout beetle
AB 035