Also known as Chiapas amber

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.2° N, 92.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 89.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: e Entomological Collection 'Padre Jesus Santiago Moure', Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná (DZUP), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Primary reference: T. A. Sepúlveda and L. R. P. Gomes. 2020. Description of the first Neriidae (Insecta, Diptera) fossilized from Miocene amber of Simojovel, Chiapas, Mexico. Historical Biology 33:3297-3301 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224158: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.01.2022

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