Also known as ETE Locality 798

Where: Mexico (18.2° N, 92.7° W: paleocoordinates 18.8° 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: M. Solorzano Kraemer and W. Mohrig. 2007. Schwenckfeldina archoica sp. nov. (Diptera, Sciaridae) from the middle Miocene Mexican amber. Alavesia 1:105-108 [M. Clapham/J. Karr] 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 April Kinchloe, Jered Karr, Amy Delelli and Matthew Clapham

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