Also known as Chiapas amber
Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.2° N, 92.8° W: paleocoordinates 17.8° N, 89.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified amber
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber
Collection methods: Repository: Museo del Ámbar Lilia Mijangos (MALM)
Primary reference: F. Riquelme, M. Montejo-Cruz, B. Luna-Castro and L. Zuñiga-Mijangos. 2015. Fossil jumping-bristletail from the Chiapas amber: Neomachilellus (Praeneomachilellus) ezetaelenensis sp. nov. (Microcoryphia: Meinertellidae). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 275:93-106 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172774: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.08.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Neomachilellus (Praeneomachilellus) ezetaelenensis Riquelme and Montejo-Cruz 2015 rock bristletail LZ.MALM.3
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