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    Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic derived from resin of the extinct tree Hymenaea protera. Dominican amber differentiates itself from...
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    Blue amber is a rare variety of amber resin that exhibits a blue coloration. Blue amber has been most commonly found in the Dominican Republic—especially...
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    of amber is known as "bony amber". Although all Dominican amber is fluorescent, the rarest Dominican amber is blue amber. It turns blue in natural sunlight...
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    Amber Cove is a cruise terminal in Puerto Plata Province in the Dominican Republic. The terminal includes lodging and retail stores. Cooper, Laura (2016-05-09)...
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    age. Dominican amber - nearly always transparent, and having a higher number of fossil inclusions than Baltic amber, Miocene age amber. Blue amber - a...
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    colours of Baltic amber. Fossil brentid beetle Amber Coast Dominican amber Japanese amber Ukrainian amber Wolfe, A. P.; Tappert, R.; Muehlenbachs, K.; Boudreau...
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    by the entomologist Cesare Baroni Urbani. The ant, described from Dominican amber, existed during the Early Miocene 15 to 45 million years ago. P. dieteri...
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  • Ornithodoros and the subgenus (Alectorobius) is described from the Dominican amber by Estrada-Peña & de la Fuente (2018), who also provide illustrated...
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    described from amber deposits, one in Myanmar and two in the Dominican Republic: †Triatoma dominicana, Dominican amber, Dominican Republic. The amber pieces were...
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    gnathostomulids. Fossils of the extant rotifer genus Habrotrocha are known from Dominican amber dating to the late Eocene, but rotifers are otherwise only known from...
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    bees). Fossils from this family are typically found in amber from the Baltic Region and the Dominican Republic and imply that Halictidae have existed since...
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    hispaniolensis (Laniatores: Samoidae?) — Dominican amber Kimula species (Laniatores: Kimulidae) — Dominican amber Hummelinckiolus silhavyi Cokendolpher &...
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    2020 Dominican amber, Miocene Eoevania Nel, Waller, Hodebert & De Ploeg, 2002 Oise amber, France, Eocene Hispaniola Poinar 2020 Dominican amber, Miocene...
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    Engel, 2008 – Dominican amber, Dominican Republic (Miocene) †Zorotypus (Zorotypus) denticulatus Yin, Cai, & Huang, 2018 – Burmese amber, Myanmar (Cretaceous)...
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    Tyrannasorus rex (category Dominican amber)
    fossilized example scarabaeoid was found embedded in the amber resin of Hymenaea protera in the Dominican Republic. The species was described by Brett C. Ratcliffe...
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    Euclimacia Enderlein, 1910 Eumantispa Okamoto, 1910 †Feroseta Poinar 2006 Dominican amber, Miocene Haematomantispa Hoffman, 2002 Leptomantispa Hoffman, 2002...
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  • million-year-old ecosystem through pieces of Dominican amber. Examples include a tadpole preserved in amber after falling from a bromeliad. Attenborough...
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    juvenile tick is known from late Albian amber, dating to 105 million years ago. The younger Baltic and Dominican ambers have also yielded examples that can...
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    small shaft mines, from which is excavated the so-called "Dominican amber". The Dominican amber production site is the world's second-largest, although...
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    the genus Paraponera. The fossils of the species were found in the Dominican amber and were described by Baroni Urbani in 1994. The fossils are now in...
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  • Burmese amber) Ctenoplectrella grimaldii Engel (a fossil bee in Baltic amber) Cubanoptila grimaldii Wichard (a fossil caddisfly in Dominican amber) Euliphora...
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  • present-day Hymenaea species. Most neotropical ambers come from its fossilized resin, including the famous Dominican amber. H. protera once grew in an extensive...
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    The enigmatic panarthropod Sialomorpha found in 30-million year old Dominican amber, while not classifiable as a tardigrade, shows some apparent affinities...
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    Neotropics, and the very small fossil species Paraponera dieteri known from Dominican amber (Early Miocene; 16-19 million years ago). Bullet ants are so named...
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    the Miocene epoch. The fossil species Catalpa hispaniolae known from Dominican amber indicates the presence of the genus in the Caribbean by the Miocene...
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    and Protomycena electra are known from single specimens found in the Dominican amber mines of Hispaniola. There are several genera classified in the Agaricales...
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    in Dominican amber. Poinar's son, Hendrik Poinar, is a genetics researcher in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. Life in Amber (1992)...
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    Archaeomarasmius leggeti, from Atlantic Coastal Plain amber, is 90–94 Ma); the other fossil genera are from Dominican amber and date to 15–20 Ma. The family currently...
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    genus Acropyga ants have been recovered from the Burdigalian stage Dominican amber deposits and several individuals are preserved carrying the extinct...
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    Paradoryphoribius (category Dominican amber)
    fossil tardigrade to be named, described in 2021 from Miocene Dominican amber from the Dominican Republic. The type, and currently only species, is P. chronocaribbeus...
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