UCMP D-698, Simojovel region (Miocene of Mexico)

Also known as Chiapas amber, Mexican amber

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.3° N, 92.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 89.2° 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

• Specimens in UC Museum of Paleontlogy, Berkeley

Primary reference: M. M. Solórzano Kraemer. 2007. Systematic, palaeoecology, and palaeobiogeography of the insect fauna from Mexican amber. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 282:1-133 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163823: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.11.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Psychodidae
Trichomyia sp. Haliday 1839 moth fly
UCMP 10398 (D-698-24)