Also known as Chiapas amber

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.1° N, 92.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° 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: Tiroler Landesmuseum

Primary reference: E. Heiss. 2016. Calisiopsis azteca n. sp., the first Aradidae from mid Miocene Mexican amber (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 68:7-10 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178678: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.05.2016

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