Also known as Chiapas amber, Mexican amber
Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.1° N, 92.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° N, 88.8° 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
Primary reference: M. R. Wheeler. 1963. A note on some fossil Drosophilidae (Diptera) from the amber of Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 37:123-124 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140197: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 05.03.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Polynemoidea mexicana n. sp.1
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Arachnida | |
"Scapheremaeus brevitarsus n. sp." = Neoliodes brevitarsus4
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