Mexican amber (AMNH Coll) (Miocene of Mexico)

Also known as Chiapas amber

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.2° N, 92.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° 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

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: D. Grimaldi. 1989. The genus Metopina (Diptera: Phoridae) from Cretaceous and Tertiary ambers. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 97(1):65-72 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124928: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Amy Delelli on 29.02.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Rhinotermitidae
Dolichorhinotermes apopnus n. sp.3 Engel and Krishna 2007 termite
AMNH Ch-50
 Hemiptera - Reduviidae
Empicoris electricus n. sp.5 Thomas 1992 thread-legged bug
AMNH DT-055
 Hymenoptera - Dryinidae
Dryinus palaeomexicanus n. sp.4 Olmi 1995 wasp
AMNH N.J35
 Neuroptera - Mantispidae
Dicromantispa electromexicana n. sp.2 Engel and Grimaldi 2007 mantidfly
AMNH CH-MP5
 Diptera - Phoridae
Metopina sp. Macquart 1835 scuttle fly
AMNH Ch-47
Myriapoda
 Scolopendromorpha - Scolopocryptopidae
Scolopocryptops simojovelensis n. sp.1 Edgecombe et al. 2012 centipede
AMNH Ch-SH7