A Superb Museum Quality example of Dominican
Amber.
An Uber rare truie iconic inclusion of
a female ant carrying an ant larva,
along with an ant pupae in authentic Dominican Amber
this specimen have been examined by paleoentomologists at the
American Museum of Natural History in New York City
DR8668AnyCarryingLarva
$1,300.00 No Reserve
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Description A101 DR8668 An uber rare true
iconic inclusion of a female ant carrying an ant larva, along with ant pupae
in an Authentic Dominican Amber Gemstone. This is the first
one we've seen in person after looking at Dominican amber for more than 25
years - an uber rare iconic inclusion! A really fabulous authentic Dominican Amber
Gemstone. |
Dominican Amber From Iturralde-Vincent and Macphee The age and depositional history of Dominican amber-bearing deposits have not been well constrained. Resinites of different ages exist in Hispaniola, but all of the main amberiferous deposits in the Dominican Republic (including those famous for yielding biological inclusions) were formed in a single sedimentary basin during the late Early Miocene through early Middle Miocene (15 to 20 million years ago), according to available biostratigraphic and paleogeographic data. There is little evidence for extensive reworking or redeposition, in either time or space. The brevity of the depositional interval (less than 5 million years) provides a temporal benchmark that can be used to calibrate rates of molecular evolution in amber taxa. In the Dominican Republic, Hymenaea trees are called Algorrobo. The Hymenaea tree exudes vast amounts of resin which over millions of years of pressure hardens into amber. Generally amber is found because a landslide along a steep slope in the mountains exposes veins of black lignite. If the lignite contains amber it is gradually extracted by digging along the vein with picks and shovels. After the amber is found it is chiseled by hand out of the shaft walls, put into burlap sacks and passed out of the mine where it is separated from the rock by machete. Larger chunks of amber make it possible to view inclusions almost immediately by holding the amber up to sunlight to determine if a large inclusion has been discovered. Fossil bearing amber is polished locally. |
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About Us We have been collecting amber in the
field and prepping rough fossil amber specimens since 1993. Photographs of
our specimens have appeared in National Geographic, Nature, Science,
Scientific American, Discover, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times and others.
We have been featured in BBCs production, PaleoWorld's The Amber Hunters. We offer authentic museum
quality Dominican and Burmese (Burmite) Amber display specimens of rare
insects in amber and also authentic rare rough unprepared amber for sale. We
have traveled many times to the Dominican Republic where we have chiseled
beautiful amber gemstones out of the lignite layers deep in the amber mines
north of Santiago. We have excavated in the Palo Quemado and Los CaCaos blue
amber mines and also in La Nueva Toca and the world famous La Toca amber
mines way up in the mountains north of Santiago. For many years we have
extensively collected mid Cretaceous New Jersey amber in the Raritan
formation of central New Jersey and have traveled many times to collect late
Cretaceous and early Paleocene amber in the Hanna formation of eastern
Wyoming. We have collected mid Cretaceous amber in the Black Creek formation
of eastern North Carolina and we have spent weeks collecting mid Cretaceous
amber in the northern most Tundra of Alaska. Some of our collecting trips
have been in October of 2003 to the western Aleutian Islands some 1000 miles
west of Anchorage to explore and collect Miocene amber, August of 2004
and April of 2006 we were back in the Dominican Republic to collect Miocene
amber from the Palo Quemado amber mines which have recently closed due to the
miners finding little amber, we were back to the Dominican Republic in April
of 2006 to video in the La Toca amber mines, and in August of 2007 we
excavated in La Toca and La Bucara. Weve collected
Eocene amber in western Indian in the Cambay amber formation. We've done
excavations in the Dominican Republic in 2012, 2014, and 2016. We did 2
collecting trips to a Eocene amber deposit in the
southern United States in 2017 and in late summer 2018 we revisited a
historic amber site in the south east that we've collected at in the 1990's. |
Some photos of our amber excavations in the Southern US in 2017 and
the Dominican Republic June 2014 and March 2016
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Some photos of our amber excavations in the Dominican Republic March
2014
Some photos of our last
amber excavations in the Dominican Republic September 2012
Some photos of our last amber
excavations in the American Midwest June 2010
Some photos of our last
amber excavations in Asia January 2010 (new top secret
location for now)
Some photos of our amber excavations in August 2007 at La Toca and La Bucara amber mines
Description A superb example of a
microcosm of the Dominican Republic rain forest, a large 205
gram amber gemstone with 2 Hymenaea leaves, blooming flowers, leptomyrmex spider ants, spiders, beetles, flies, polydesmid millipedes, nasute
termites, crickets, phorid flies, dolichopodid flies, tipulid flies and
others. A really fabulous authentic Dominican Amber Gemstone. |
Dominican Amber From Iturralde-Vincent
and Macphee The age and depositional
history of Dominican amber-bearing deposits have not been well constrained. Resinites of different ages exist in Hispaniola, but all
of the main amberiferous deposits in the Dominican
Republic (including those famous for yielding biological inclusions) were
formed in a single sedimentary basin during the late Early Miocene through
early Middle Miocene (15 to 20 million years ago), according to available biostratigraphic and paleogeographic data. There is
little evidence for extensive reworking or redeposition, in either time or
space. The brevity of the depositional interval (less than 5 million years)
provides a temporal benchmark that can be used to calibrate rates of
molecular evolution in amber taxa. In the Dominican Republic, Hymenaea trees
are called Algorrobo. The Hymenaea tree exudes vast
amounts of resin which over millions of years of pressure hardens into amber.
Generally amber is found because a landslide along a steep slope in the
mountains exposes veins of black lignite. If the lignite contains amber it is gradually extracted by digging along the vein
with picks and shovels. After the amber is found it is chiseled by hand out
of the shaft walls, put into burlap sacks and passed out of the mine where it
is separated from the rock by machete. Larger chunks of amber make it
possible to view inclusions almost immediately by holding the amber up to
sunlight to determine if a large inclusion has been discovered. Fossil
bearing amber is polished locally. |
Shipping and Insurance Within the USA - $8.00 shipping and
insurance - we ship all specimens US Postal Service Priority Mail. |
Payment Payment is required within 7 days of the
end of the auction. We Accept Pay Pal. Multiple items can of course be
combined for one shipping cost. We ship all specimens upon receipt of
payment. Pay us Instantly and Securely with Pay Pal - fast, easy, and secure
payments for all of your purchases! |
About Us We have been collecting amber in the
field and prepping rough fossil amber specimens since 1993. Photographs of
our specimens have appeared in National Geographic, Nature, Science, Scientific
American, Discover, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times and others. We have
been featured in BBCs production, PaleoWorld's
The Amber Hunters. We offer authentic museum quality Dominican and Burmese
(Burmite) Amber display specimens of rare insects in amber and also authentic
rare rough unprepared amber for sale. We have traveled many times to the
Dominican Republic where we have chiseled beautiful amber gemstones out of
the lignite layers deep in the amber mines north of Santiago. We have excavated
in the Palo Quemado and Los CaCaos blue amber mines and also in La Nueva Toca
and the world famous La Toca amber mines way up in the mountains north of
Santiago. For many years we have extensively collected mid Cretaceous New
Jersey amber in the Raritan formation of central New Jersey and have traveled
many times to collect late Cretaceous and early Paleocene amber in the Hanna
formation of eastern Wyoming. We have collected mid Cretaceous amber in the
Black Creek formation of eastern North Carolina and we have spent weeks
collecting mid Cretaceous amber in the northern most Tundra of Alaska. Some
of our collecting trips have been in October of 2003 to the western Aleutian
Islands some 1000 miles west of Anchorage to explore and collect Miocene
amber, August of 2004 and April of 2006 we were back in the Dominican
Republic to collect Miocene amber from the Palo Quemado amber mines which
have recently closed due to the miners finding little amber, we were back to
the Dominican Republic in April of 2006 to video in the La Toca amber mines,
and in August of 2007 we excavated in La Toca and La Bucara. Weve
collected Eocene amber in western Indian in the Cambay amber formation. We've
done excavations in the Dominican Republic in 2012, 2014, and 2016. We
did 2 collecting trips to a Eocene amber deposit in
the southern United States in 2017 and in late summer 2018 we revisited a
historic amber site in the south east that we've collected at in the 1990's. |