Also known as Chiapas amber

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.1° N, 92.8° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 89.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: Coleccion Nacional de Paleontologia, Instituto de Geologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (IGL-UNAM)

Primary reference: F. Riquelme, M. Hernández-Patricio, A. Martínez-Dávalos, M. Rodríguez-Villafuerte, M. Montejo-Cruz, J. Alvarado-Ortega, J. L. Ruvalacaba-Sil and L. Zúñiga-Mijangos. 2014. Two flat-backed polydesmidan millipedes from the Miocene Chiapas-amber Lagerstätte, Mexico. PLoS One 9(8):e105877 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 217222: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.01.2021

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