Ricania fulgens

Specimen: 
Ricania fulgens

BMNH P I.3995

Collection

Institution Code: BMNH

Collection Code: P

Catalogue Number Text: I.3995

Identification

Basis of Record: Fossil Specimen

Taxonomic Name: 

Location

Miscellaneous

BMNH P I.3505

Collection

Institution Code: BMNH

Collection Code: P

Catalogue Number Text: I.3505

Identification

Basis of Record: Fossil Specimen

Taxonomic Name: 

Location

Miscellaneous

Dominican amber

Type of Preservation: 
fossil resin
General notes: 
The fossilised resin of a leguminose tree Hymenaea, of the Early to Middle Miocene age, is been collecting in various sites of the Dominican Republic (ITURRALDE & MACPHEE 1996). Dominican arthropods are extremely numerous and diverse: the collection kept in the Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC, USA) comprises some 5,000 pieces, about 3,000 of them being studied more carefully have yielded more then 9,000 fossils (Rasnitsyn unpublished). The general appearance of the fauna is that of the average Central American tropical forest, except for a few exotic elements, and most species and some genera being extinct (POINAR 1992a, and references therein).
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