Mesembrinella caenozoica
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Mesembrinella caenozoica is an extinct species of blow fly in the family Mesembrinellidae. The species is solely known from the Middle Miocene Dominican amber deposits on the island of Hispaniola.
Mesembrinella caenozoica profile view
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Thorax with hairs
La Toca Formation
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The La Toca Formation is a geologic formation in the northern and eastern part of the Dominican Republic. The formation, predominantly an alternating sequence of marls and turbiditic sandstones, brecc
Mesembrinella caenozoica
…Mexico. The amber dates from the Burdigalian stage (20.43 ± 0.05 to 15.97 ± 0.05 million years ago) of the Miocene, and is recovered from sections of the La Toca Formation in the Cordillera Septentrional and the Yanigua Formation in the Cordillera Oriental. The specimen was collected from an unidentified amber mine in the…
The turbidites of La Toca Formation were deposited at the base of slope
Electromyrmococcus abductus carried by Acropyga glaesaria La Toca mine of La Toca Formation
Cephalotes integerrimus from El Valle locality of La Toca Formation