Also known as Chiapas amber, Mexican amber
Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.1° N, 93.2° W: paleocoordinates 18.6° N, 89.5° 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
Primary reference: K. Krishna and A. E. Emerson. 1983. A new fossil species of termite from Mexican Amber, Mastotermes electromexicus (Isoptera, Mastotermitidae). American Museum Novitates 2767:1-8 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140478: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Trichomyia axeli n. sp.
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