El Porvenir, Simojovel (Mexican amber, CPAL-UAEM coll.) (Miocene of Mexico)

Also known as Chiapas amber

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.2° N, 92.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.8° N, 89.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• 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: Colección de Paleontología, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (CPAL-UAEM)

Primary reference: F. Riquelme and M. Hernández-Patricio. 2018. The millipedes and centipedes of Chiapas amber. Check List 14(4):637-646 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198594: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.12.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Myriapoda
 Scolopendromorpha - Cryptopidae
Cryptops sp. Leach 1815 centipede
CPAL.116