PBDB Collection

Rio Totolapa Salado amber (Coty collection, MNHN) (Miocene of Mexico)

Also known as Chiapas amber; Mexican amber

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (16.5° N, 92.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.1° N, 89.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collected by David Coty; reposited in the MNHN

• Provisionally stored in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.

Primary reference: D. Azar, A. Nel, D. Coty and R. Garrouste. 2010. The second fossil ceratocombid bug from the Miocene amber of Chiapas (Mexico) (Hemiptera: Ceratocombidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 46:100-102 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123456: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
Diptera - Stratiomyidae	Elektrothopomyia tzoltzili n. sp.⁴, Elektrothopomyia saltensis n. sp.⁴ Elektrothopomyia tzoltzili n. sp.⁴ Coty and Nel 2013 soldier fly MNHN TOT 100 Elektrothopomyia saltensis n. sp.⁴ Coty and Nel 2013 soldier fly MNHN TOT 084a
Diptera - Psychodidae	Succinarisemus totolapensis n. sp.⁵ Succinarisemus totolapensis n. sp.⁵ Coty et al. 2013 moth fly MNHN Coty 104
Diptera - Scatopsidae	Psectrosciara fossilis n. sp.⁷ Psectrosciara fossilis n. sp.⁷ Nel and Coty 2016 minute black scavenger fly MNHN.F.A57265
Coleoptera - Curculionidae	Caulophilus ayotzinapa n. sp.¹ Caulophilus ayotzinapa n. sp.¹ Barrios-Izás 2016 snout beetle Rafael Landívar University Collection TOT 052.3
Hymenoptera - Formicidae	Azteca sp.², Neivamyrmex sp.² Azteca sp.² Forel 1878 ant MNHN.F.A49933 Neivamyrmex sp.² Borgmeier 1940 army ant MNHN.F.A49933
Blattodea - Termitidae	Nasutitermes sp.² Nasutitermes sp.² Dudley 1890 termite MNHN.F.A49933
Hemiptera - Ceratocombidae	Leptonannus miocenicus n. sp. Leptonannus miocenicus n. sp. Azar et al. 2010 true bug
Hemiptera - Tingidae	Leptopharsa tacanae n. sp.³ Leptopharsa tacanae n. sp.³ Coty et al. 2015 lace bug MNHN Coty TOT158.1
Arachnida
Pseudoscorpiones - Chthoniidae	Tyrannochthonius sp.⁶ Tyrannochthonius sp.⁶ Chamberlin 1929 pseudoscorpion Coty TOT 004 1/3

¹Barrios-Izás and Coty 2016; ²Coty et al. 2014; ³Coty et al. 2015; ⁴Coty and Nel 2013; ⁵Coty et al. 2013; ⁶Judson 2016; ⁷Nel and Coty 2016