Where: Tanzania (4.6° S, 39.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.8° S, 38.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mikindani Formation, Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• Found in a layer 11 m below the surface. The deposits are part of the Mikindani beds (Stockley 1928). Poinar (1992) indicated that this copal may be Pliocene in age, while Schluter and von Gnielinski (1987) assigned a Pleistocene age. [Most other "Pleistocene" copals are Holocene, often only decades to centuries old.]

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified amber

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: amber

Reposited in the BMNH, MCZ

• Repository: collection of M.B. DuBois (two pieces returned to Lloyd Davis, one donated to BMNH, one donated to MCZ)

Primary reference: M. B. DuBois. 1998. The first fossil Dorylinae with notes on fossil Ecitoninae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological News 109:136-142 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 125729: authorized by Matthew Vavrek, entered by Matthew Vavrek on 18.03.2012

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