Also known as Chiapas amber

Where: Mexico (17.2° N, 92.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 20.7° N, 86.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mazantic Shale Formation (Simojovel Group), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• JA: originally entered as Chattian and from the La Quinta Formation; fossils are from the estaurine Mazantic Shale and strictly Early Miocene according to Perrilliat et al. 2010

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: personal collection of Mr Herbert Knodel, Rotonda, USA

Primary reference: W. R. Lourenço. 2014. A new species of scorpion from Chiapas amber, Mexico (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 24:59-63more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 238278: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.01.2025

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