Dominican amber, La Cumbre (MCFB collection) (Miocene to of Dominican Republic)

Where: Dominican Republic (19.6° N, 70.6° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 69.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Civico dei Fossili di Besano (MCFB)

Primary reference: J. Szwedo, E. Bonino, L. Tettamanzi and A. Stroiński. 2022. Yobuenahuaboshka gen. nov. of Colpopterini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Nogodinidae) from the Lower Miocene Dominican amber. Annales Zoologici 72:991-1004 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228740: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.12.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Hemiptera - Miridae
Electroderaeous crassicornis n. gen. n. sp.
Electroderaeous crassicornis n. gen. n. sp. Taszakowski and Kim 2023 plant bug
MCFB 865
 Hemiptera - Nogodinidae
Yobuenahuaboshka rectangialatus n. gen. n. sp.
Yobuenahuaboshka rectangialatus n. gen. n. sp. Szwedo and Stroiński 2022 planthopper
MCFB 865