Also known as Chiapas amber
Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.3° N, 92.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 89.2° 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
Reposited in the UCMP
• Specimens in UC Museum of Paleontlogy, Berkeley
Primary reference: A. Petrunkevitch. 1963. Chiapas amber spiders. University of California Publications in Entomology 31:1-40 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124469: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Belaphotroctes similis n. sp." = Belaphotroctes ghesquierei4
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"Ceroplatinae indet." = Keroplatidae3
"Ceroplatinae indet." = Keroplatidae3 Rondani 1856 predatory fungus gnat B-4116-3, 4 ("Platyura or Orfelia")
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Procolobostema obscurum n. sp.1
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Planoxyopes eximius n. gen. n. sp.
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"Mimeutychurus paradoxus n. gen. n. sp." = Strotarchus paradoxus
"Mimeutychurus paradoxus n. gen. n. sp." = Strotarchus paradoxus Petrunkevitch 1963 spider UCMP 12726
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Veterator extinctus n. gen. n. sp.
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Pronepos fossilis n. sp.
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