Mexican amber, Los Pocitos (MACH collection) (Miocene of Mexico)

Also known as Chiapas amber

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.1° N, 92.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 89.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Comuntario del Ambar, Simojovel, Chiapas (MUCAS), later named Museo del Ámbar de Chiapas (MACH)

Primary reference: F. Riquelme, M. Menéndez-Acuña, and I. Yoval-Martínez. 2021. Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Miocene Mexican amber. Palaeodiversity 14:5-13 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 217215: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.01.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Blattodea - Pseudophyllodromiidae
Supella (Nemosupella) miocenica n. sp.3
Supella (Nemosupella) miocenica n. sp.3 Vršanský et al. 2011 cockroach
MUCAS-001
 Archaeognatha - Meinertellidae
Neomachilellus (Praeneomachilellus) ezetaelenensis2
Neomachilellus (Praeneomachilellus) ezetaelenensis2 Riquelme and Montejo-Cruz 2015 rock bristletail
BL.MACH.47
Arachnida
 Araneae - Salticidae
Salticinae indet., Marpissina indet.
Salticinae indet. Blackwall 1841 spider
MACH.25, 138
Marpissina indet. Simon 1901 spider
MACH.31, 41, 73
Myriapoda
 Chilognatha -
Polydesmida indet.1
Polydesmida indet.1 Pocock 1887 millipede
MACH.21
1Riquelme and Hernández-Patricio 2018; 2Riquelme et al. 2015; 3Vršanský et al. 2011