Also known as ETE Locality 799, Dominican Republic Amber

Where: Dominican Republic (17.7° N, 71.5° W: paleocoordinates 17.6° N, 70.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.7 Ma)

• 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.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Reposited in the MCZ

• Specimens in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, Harvard). ETE reference list: 483, 482, 481, 480, 478, 477

Primary reference: W. P. MacKay. 1991. Anochetus brevidentatus, new species, a second fossil Odontomachiti ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 99:138-140 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21978: authorized by Conrad Labandeira, entered by Conrad Labandeira on 09.06.1998, edited by April Kinchloe, Amy Delelli and Matthew Clapham

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