Category

Neogene Dominican Republic

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Tyrannasorus rex

extinct species of beetle

Cephalotes dieteri

species of insect (fossil)

Cephalotes hispaniolicus

species of insect (fossil)

Cephalotes carabicus

species of insect

Cephalotes alveolatus

species of insect (fossil)

Palaeoraphe is an extinct genus of palms, represented by one species, Palaeoraphe dominicana from early Miocene Burdigalian stage Dominican amber deposits on the island of Hispaniola, in the modern-day Dominican Republic. ==Discovery and naming== The genus is known from a single, diameter, full flower. The holotype is currently deposited in the collections of the Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, as number "Sd–9–158", where it was studied and described by Dr George Poinar. Dr Poinar published his 2002 type description for Palaeoraphe in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Trypanosoma antiquus

species of Kinetoplastea

Xenolimosina is a genus of flies belonging to the family of the Sphaeroceridae.