 The type specimens were collected from an undetermined amber mine, in fossil bearing rocks of the Cordillera Septentrional mountains, northern Dominican Republic.The amber was produced by resin from the extinct tree "Hymenaea protera", which formerly grew on Hispaniola, across northern South America and up to southern Mexico.The amber dates from at least the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene, based on studying the associated fossil foraminifera and may be as old as the Middle Eocene, based on the associated fossil coccoliths.