Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Dominican amber (CAS collection) | Santiago-Blay J. A., Craig P. R. (1999) | | Age controversial, with the youngest proposed age of 20-15 mya based on foraminifera and the oldest as 45-30 mya based on coccoliths. Most of the amber is secondarily deposited in turbiditic sandstones. | amber | 20.44 - 13.82 Ma Miocene |
Dominican amber, La Toca (Amberica West coll) | H谩va J., Prokop J. (2004) | | Age controversial, with the youngest proposed age of 20-15 mya based on foraminifera and the oldest as 45-30 mya based on coccoliths. Most of the amber is secondarily deposited in turbiditic sandstones. | amber | 20.44 - 13.82 Ma Miocene |
Dominican amber, La Toca (DZUP coll) | Casadei-Ferreira A., Chaul J. C. M., et al (2019) | | Age controversial, with the youngest proposed age of 20-15 mya based on foraminifera and the oldest as 45-30 mya based on coccoliths. Most of the amber is secondarily deposited in turbiditic sandstones. | amber | 20.44 - 13.82 Ma Miocene |
Dominican amber, La Toca (EPGM_RD coll) | Peris D., Sol贸rzano Kraemer M. M., et al (2015) | | Age controversial, with the youngest proposed age of 20-15 mya based on foraminifera and the oldest as 45-30 mya based on coccoliths. Most of the amber is secondarily deposited in turbiditic sandstones. | amber | 20.44 - 13.82 Ma Miocene |
Dominican amber, La Toca (MCZ coll) | Vierbergen G., Scheven J. (1995) | | Age controversial, with the youngest proposed age of 20-15 mya based on foraminifera and the oldest as 45-30 mya based on coccoliths. Most of the amber is secondarily deposited in turbiditic sandstones. | amber | 20.44 - 13.82 Ma Miocene |
Dominican amber, La Toca mine (AMNH coll) | Davis S. R., Engel M. S. (2006) | La Toca | Older dates for Dominican amber were Upper Eocene or Oligocene, but it is now dated as Miocene. | amber | 20.44 - 13.82 Ma Miocene |
Dominican amber, La Toca mine (Poinar coll) | Nel A., Waller A., et al (2006) | La Toca | Older dates for Dominican amber were Upper Eocene or Oligocene, but it is now dated as Miocene. | amber | 20.44 - 13.82 Ma Miocene |
Dominican amber, La Toca mine (SMF coll) | Johnson C., Agosti D., et al (2001) | La Toca | Older dates for Dominican amber were Upper Eocene or Oligocene, but it is now dated as Miocene. | amber | 20.44 - 13.82 Ma Miocene |
Dominican amber, La Vega group of mines (AMNH coll) | Grimaldi D. A., Michalski C., et al (1993) | La Toca | Older dates for Dominican amber were Upper Eocene or Oligocene, but it is now dated as Miocene. | amber | 20.44 - 13.82 Ma Miocene |
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Poinar G. O. (1996) A fossil stalk-winged damselfly, Diceratobasis worki spec. nov., from Dominican Amber, with possible ovipositional behavior in tank bromeliads (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae), Odonatologica 25 4, 381-385 |
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H谩va J., Prokop J. (2004) New fossil dermestid-beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from the Dominican amber of the Greater Antilles, with an appendix listing known fossil species of this family, Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 68, 173-182 |
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Poinar G. (2005) Culex malariager, n. sp. (Diptera: Culicidae) from Dominican amber: the first fossil mosquito vector of Plasmodium, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 107, 548-553 |
Davis S. R., Engel M. S. (2006) A weevil of the genus Caulophilus in Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 75, 101-104 |
Poinar G. (2006) Feroseta priscus (Neuroptera: Mantispidae), a new genus and species of mantidflies in Dominican amber, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108, 411-417 |
Nel A., Waller A., et al (2006) The first fossil Myopsocidae (Psocoptera) in Dominican amber, Zootaxa 1349, 63-68 |
Poinar G. (2013) Panstrongylus hispaniolae sp. n. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae), a new fossil triatomine in Dominican amber, with evidence of gut flagellates, Palaeodiversity 6, 1-8 |
Cognato A. I. (2013) Electroborus brighti: the first Hylesinini bark beetle described from Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), The Canadian Entomologist 145, 501-508 |
Mynhardt G., Philips T. K. (2013) A third new genus and species of spider beetle, Okamninus annae n. gen., n. sp. (Coleoptera: Ptinidae), from Dominican amber, Palaeodiversity 6, 23-28 |
Poinar G. O. (2014) A snail-killing fly, Dominimyza tanyacaena n. gen., n. sp. (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) in Dominican amber, Historical Biology 26, 428-432 |
Poinar G. O., Hamilton K. G. A., et al (2014) Prisciba, n. gen., and two new species of fossil froghoppers (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Clastopteridae) in Dominican amber, Historical Biology 26, 1-5 |
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Poinar G., Brown A. (2015) New genera and species of jumping ground bugs (Hemiptera: Schizopteridae) in Dominican and Burmese amber, with a description of a meloid (Coleoptera: Meloidae) triungulin on a Burmese specimen, Annales de la Soci茅t茅 Entomologique de France 50, 372-381 |
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