Also known as Chiapas amber; ETE Locality 798
Where: Mexico (17.2° N, 92.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 89.0° W)
• 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
Reposited in the SMNS
• Material in the Stuttgart Museum fur Naturkunde collection
Primary reference: W. Schawaller. 1982. Der erste Pseudoskorpion (Chernetidae) aus Mexikanischem Bernstein (Stuttgarter Bernsteinsammlung: Arachnida, Pseudoscorpionidea). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 85:1-9 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 21977: authorized by Conrad Labandeira, entered by Conrad Labandeira on 08.06.1998, edited by Jered Karr, Amy Delelli and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Trichomyia sp.17, Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) bolontikui n. sp.4, Psychodinae indet.17, Psychoda sp.17, Matuna sp.17, Alepia sp.17
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Schwenckfeldina archoica n. sp.13
Schwenckfeldina archoica n. sp.13 Solórzano Kraemer and Mohrig 2007 dark-winged fungus gnat SMNS Mx 367
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Stenotabanus oleariorum n. sp.18
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Sympycninae indet.1, ? Sympycninae indet.1, Neoparentia chiapensis n. sp.1, Medeterinae indet.1, Amblypsilopus sp.1, Amblypsilopus sp.1, Amblypsilopus sp.1, Amblypsilopus monicae n. sp.1, Mesorhaga pseudolacrymans1, Mesorhaga pseudolacrymans n. sp.1
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Brachypogon (Isohelea) sp.11, Culicoides sp.11, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) "sp. 1"11, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) "sp. 2"11, Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) sp.11
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"Scolytidae indet." = Scolytinae11, Cenocephalus hurdi8, Cenocephalus tenuis n. sp.8, Cenocephalus succinicaptus8, Tesserocerus simojovelensis n. sp.8
Tesserocerus simojovelensis n. sp.8 Peris and Solórzano Kraemer 2015 pin-hole borer beetle SMNS Mx-238
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"Colydiidae indet." = Zopheridae11
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Solenopsis sp.11, Cephalotes "sp. 1"11, Cephalotes "sp. 2"11, Cephalotes ventriosus n. sp.2, Pheidole "sp. 1"11, Pheidole "sp. 2"11, Crematogaster sp.11, Azteca sp.11, Tapinoma sp.11, Pachycondyla "sp. 1"11, Pachycondyla "sp. 2"11, Pachycondyla "sp. 3"11, Camponotus sp.11
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Hyptia deansi n. sp.5
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Tuthillia danielburckhardti n. sp.3
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Alumeda solorzanokraemerae n. sp.9
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Nogodina chiapaneca n. sp.14
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