Also known as Chiapas amber

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.1° N, 92.8° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 89.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México (INAH)

Primary reference: F. Riquelme, J. Alvarado-Ortega, M. Ramos-Aria, M. Hernández, I. Le Dez, T. A. Lee-Whiting, and J. L. Ruvalcaba-Sil. 2014. A fossil stemmiulid millipede (Diplopoda: Stemmiulida) from the Miocene amber of Simojovel, Chiapas, Mexico. Historical Biology 26:415-427 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157206: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.06.2014

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