UCMP B-7453, Santa Lucia (Miocene of Mexico)

Also known as Chiapas amber, Mexican amber

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.1° N, 92.5° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° 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: T. A. Woolley. 1971. Fossil oribatid mites in amber from Chiapas, Mexico (Acarina : Oribatei = Cryptostigmata). University of California Publications in Entomology 63:91-99 [D. Smith/A. Kinchloe/A. Kinchloe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140208: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Acariformes - Oripodidae
"Eremaeus denaius n. sp." = Parapimodus denaius
"Eremaeus denaius n. sp." = Parapimodus denaius Woolley 1971 oribatid mite
UCMP 12950
Insecta
 Diptera - Cecidomyiidae
? Henria sp.2
? Henria sp.2 Wyatt 1959 gall midge
UCMP 12954
 Diptera - Dolichopodidae
? Hercostomus sp.1, Medetera sp.1
? Hercostomus sp.1 Loew 1857 long-legged fly
UCMP 12955
Medetera sp.1 Fischer von Waldheim 1819 long-legged fly
UCMP 12956
1Bickel and Solórzano Kraemer 2016; 2Gagné 1973