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: Museo del Ámbar de Chiapas (MACH)

Primary reference: F. Riquelme, G. Villegas-Guzmán, E. González-Santillán, V. Córdova-Tabares, O. F. Francke, D. Piedra-Jiménez, E. Estrada-Ruiz and B. Luna-Castro. 2015. New fossil scorpion from the Chiapas amber lagerstätte. PLoS One 10(8):e0133396 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 217223: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.01.2021

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