Piece of amber of 2.11 grams and ± 2.7 x 1.5 cm. Indeterminate insects are observed.
* Chiapas amber has special characteristics; In its natural state it appears as nodules of yellow, reddish or golden color, within strata of calcareous marine sandstones and lignite layers in geological formations corresponding to the final part of the Oligocene and early Miocene, with an age of 22.5 to 26 millions of years. It has been determined that its paleobotanical origin was the resin of a legume of the genus Hyme-naea, ancestor of the tree known locally as guapiñol.
Tertiary epoch, 25 million years,
Simojovel, Chiapas, Mexico
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