Check List 14(4): 637-646, doi: 10.15560/14.4.637
The millipedes and centipedes of Chiapas amber
Francisco Riquelme‡, Miguel Hernández-Patricio§‡ Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Morelos, Mexico§ Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, Mexico City, Mexico
Corresponding author: Francisco Riquelme ( riquelme.fc@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Peter Decker © 2018 Francisco Riquelme, Miguel Hernández-Patricio. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Riquelme F, Hernández-Patricio F (2018) The millipedes and centipedes of Chiapas amber. Check List 14(4): 637-646. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.4.637 |  |
Abstract
An inventory of fossil millipedes (class Diplopoda) and centipedes (class Chilopoda) from Miocene Chiapas amber, Mexico, is presented, with the inclusion of new records. For Diplopoda, 34 members are enumerated, for which 31 are described as new fossil records of the orders Siphonophorida Newport, 1844, Spirobolida Bollman, 1893, Polydesmida Leach, 1895, Stemmiulida Pocock, 1894, and the superorder Juliformia Attems, 1926. For Chilopoda 8 fossils are listed, for which 3 are new records of the order Geophilomorpha Pocock, 1895 and 2 are of the order Scolopendromorpha Pocock, 1895.
Keywords
Miocene, Mexico, Diplopoda, Chilopoda