Mexican amber (National Museum of Scotland coll) (Miocene of Mexico)

Also known as Chiapas amber

Where: Mexico (17.2° N, 92.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 89.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: National Museum of Scotland (NMS), Edinburgh, UK

Primary reference: J. A. Dunlop, D. Harms, and D. Penney. 2008. A fossil tarantula (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Miocene Chiapas amber, Mexico. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 15:9-17 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146607: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Cecidomyiidae
Mexicanodiplosis katyae n. gen. n. sp.1, Lestremia sp.7
Mexicanodiplosis katyae n. gen. n. sp.1 Fedotova and Perkovsky 2019 gall midge
NMS G.2007.67.14
Lestremia sp.7 Macquart 1826 gall midge
NMS G.2004.50.1.2(x6), G.2005.147.6.3, G.2006.42.5.4, G.2007.67.5.3(x8), G.2011.31.7.2
 Blattodea - Mastotermitidae
Mastotermes sp.7
Mastotermes sp.7 Froggatt 1897 termite
NMS G.2005.147.7.2, G.2008.34.6(x2), G.2014.50.3.1, G.2005.147.4.1
 Blattodea - Anaplectidae
Anaplecta sp.7
Anaplecta sp.7 Burmeister 1838 cockroach
NMS G.2011.31.10, G.2006.42.1
 Dermaptera - Haplodiplatyidae
Haplodiplatys crightoni n. sp.6
Haplodiplatys crightoni n. sp.6 Ross and Engel 2013 earwig
NMS G.2011.31.1
 Coleoptera - Anthribidae
Homocloeus popovi n. sp.3
Homocloeus popovi n. sp.3 Legalov et al. 2019 fungus weevil
NMS G.2004.6.8.1
 Odonata - Coenagrionidae
Neoerythromma sp.5
Neoerythromma sp.5 Kennedy 1920 narrow-winged damselfly
NMS G.2008.34.1.1
 Ephemeroptera - Heptageniidae
Maccaffertium annae n. sp.4
Maccaffertium annae n. sp.4 Macadam and Ross 2016 stream mayfly
NMS G.2008.34.3.1, 2
Arachnida
 Pseudoscorpiones - Atemnidae
? Paratemnoides sp.2
? Paratemnoides sp.2 Harvey 1991 pseudoscorpion
NMS G.2004.6.5
 Pseudoscorpiones - Chernetidae
? Lustrochernes "sp. 2"2
? Lustrochernes "sp. 2"2 Beier 1932 pseudoscorpion
NMS G.2011.31.2
 Araneae - Trochanteriidae
Veterator sp.7
Veterator sp.7 Petrunkevitch 1963 spider
G.2004.50.1.1, ?G.2004.50.2.1, ?G.2004.50.10.1(x2)
 Araneae - Pholcidae
Modisimus sp.7
Modisimus sp.7 Simon 1893 daddy long-legs spider
NMS G.2004.6.4.1
 Araneae - Theraphosidae
Theraphosidae indet.
Theraphosidae indet. Thorell 1870 tarantula
NMS G.2004.6.1
1Fedotova and Perkovsky 2019; 2Judson 2016; 3Legalov et al. 2019; 4Macadam and Ross 2016; 5Ross et al. 2016; 6Ross and Engel 2013; 7Ross et al. 2016