Mexican amber, Los Pocitos (CPAL 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: 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 217216: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.01.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Araneae - Salticidae
Salticinae indet., Freyina indet., Dendryphantini indet., Dendryphantina indet.
Salticinae indet. Blackwall 1841 spider
CPAL.40, 64, 81
Freyina indet. Edwards 2015 spider
CPAL.79
Dendryphantini indet. Menge 1879 spider
CPAL.80
Dendryphantina indet. Menge 1879 spider
CPAL.17, 38
Myriapoda
 Polydesmida - Pyrgodesmidae
Myrmecodesmus sp.
Myrmecodesmus sp. Silvestri 1910 millipede
CPAL.117