Also known as Mexican amber

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (16.5° N, 92.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.1° 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

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: D. Grimaldi. 1989. The genus Metopina (Diptera: Phoridae) from Cretaceous and Tertiary ambers. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 97(1):65-72 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124928: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Amy Delelli on 29.02.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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