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

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mazantic Shale Formation (Simojovel Group), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• JA: originally entered as Chattian and from the La Quinta Formation; fossils are from the estaurine Mazantic Shale and strictly Early Miocene according to Perrilliat et al. 2010

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: private collection of Dr. Rodolfo Molina

Primary reference: J. A. Santiago-Blay and G. O. Poinar. 1993. First scorpion (Buthidae: Centruroides) from Mexican amber (Lower Miocene to Upper Oligocene). The Journal of Arachnology 21:147-151 [D. Smith/A. Kinchloe/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153609: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.12.2013, edited by April Kinchloe

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