Dominican Amber Termites

Stunning Image of what appeard to be a large termite pushing out an egg sack and two other termites watching. There is also a fourth bug on the upper side of the Amber.

COUNTRY: Dominican republic
LOCATION: Siete Cañadas Mine In Samana de La Mar
FOSSIL TYPE: Termites, Unk, Know Bug
Quantity: 4
SCIENTIFIC NAME:
FOSSIL SIZE: 6mm
AMBER SIZE: 41 x 28 x 14mm

Amber is fossilized tree resin, which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects. Amber is used in jewelry
Collectors and scientists have found not just bugs entombed in tree resin, but even animals as large as lizards, frogs and salamanders can be preserved in impressive detail. Skin, scales, fur and feathers are just some of the incredibly detailed features found in amber. Insects may be caught having sex.
A study in the early 1990s returned a date up to 40 million years old. However, according to Poinar, Dominican amber dates from Oligocene to Miocene, thus about 25 million years old. The oldest, and hardest of this amber comes from the mountain region north of Santiago. The La Cumbre, La Toca, Palo Quemado, La Bucara, and Los Cacaos mining sites in the Cordillera Septentrional not far from Santiago. Amber has also been found in the south-eastern Bayaguana/Sabana de la Mar area. There is also subfossil copal found in the Cotui deposits with an age of less than 280 years.