Also known as Chiapas amber, Mexican amber
Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.0° N, 92.2° W: paleocoordinates 18.0° N, 88.5° 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: K. Christiansen. 1971. Notes on Miocene amber Collembola from Chiapas. University of California Publications in Entomology 63:45-48 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140218: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Collembola | |
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