Also known as Chiapas amber

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (16.5° N, 92.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.1° N, 89.0° 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

Collection methods: Repository: Museo de Paleontología Eliseo Palacios Aguilera in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico. Institutional abbreviation: IHNFG, Instituto de Historia Natural Fósiles Geográficos.

Primary reference: C. Durán-Ruiz, F. Riquelme, M. Coutiño-José, G. Carbot-Chanona, G. Castaño-Meneses and M. Ramos-Arias. 2013. Ants from the Miocene Totolapa amber (Chiapas, Mexico), with the first record of the genus Forelius (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 50:495-502 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153340: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.12.2013

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