Also known as Chiapas amber

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.2° N, 92.8° W: paleocoordinates 17.8° 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 Lilia Mijangos (MALM)

Primary reference: F. Riquelme, M. Montejo-Cruz, B. Luna-Castro and L. Zuñiga-Mijangos. 2015. Fossil jumping-bristletail from the Chiapas amber: Neomachilellus (Praeneomachilellus) ezetaelenensis sp. nov. (Microcoryphia: Meinertellidae). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 275:93-106 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172774: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.08.2015

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