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Dominican amberType 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some 5,000 pieces, about 3,000 of them being studied more carefully have yielded more then 9,000 fossils (Rasnitsyn unpublished).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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