@article{2c10b1b8ee44474aaa47f271a21d967d,
title = "A fossil stemmiulid millipede (Diplopoda: Stemmiulida) from the Miocene amber of Simojovel, Chiapas, M{\'e}xico",
abstract = "A fossil millipede representative of the order Stemmiulida is described on the basis of a well-preserved adult female trapped in amber from the Miocene of Simojovel, Chiapas, south-eastern M{\'e}xico. The fossil specimen is named as Parastemmiulus elektron, a new genus and species. As observed in extant stemmiulids, this fossil shows a reduced number of ocelli, the distal larger than the proximal, as well as a total of 46 trunk segments including 2 apodous segments in front of the telson. The head of this ancient stemmiulid has three ocelli and a T{\"o}m{\"o}sv{\'a}ry organ, characteristics not reported before in Stemmiulida, requiring the diagnosis of the order to be emended.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:361400A8-37D4-421F-B4FD-A0AE63BE538C.",
keywords = "Chiapas amber, Miocene, Parastemmiulus, Stemmiulida",
author = "Francisco Riquelme and Jes{\'u}s Alvarado-Ortega and Mario Ramos-Arias and Miguel Hern{\'a}ndez and {Le Dez}, Isabelle and Lee-Whiting, {Thomas A.} and Ruvalcaba-Sil, {Jos{\'e} Luis}",
note = "Funding Information: This paper was submitted as part of the PhD-granting programme of Biological Sciences at the UNAM, financially supported by CONACYT. Funding to J.A.O. is provided by UNAM-PAPIIT grant 106011; additional support granted by PAPIIT-UNAM IN403210 and CONACYT endowment 131944.We thank Stefano Calabro, from the amber collection SUCCINUM2661 at San Cristobal, Chis., who generously helped in this project. We also thank No{\'e} Lopez, Rene Hern{\'a}ndez and Luis Zu{\~n}iga for field assistance at the Simojovel amber deposits. We thank Susana Guzm{\'a}n (UNIBIO-UNAM) for photomicrograph assistance; and Dra. Ma. Del Carmen Perrilliat for access to the Colecci{\'o}n Nacional de Paleontolog{\'i}a, IGL-UNAM. We also appreciate the comments, corrections and critics from Drs Julian Bueno, Greg Edgecombe and Rowland Shelley, who kindly urged to prepare this manuscript; our communication and discussions do not necessarily imply their agreement with the views expressed here. The editor and referees also provided useful suggestions that improved the manuscript.",
year = "2014",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1080/08912963.2013.778843",
language = "Ingl{\'e}s",
volume = "26",
pages = "415--427",
journal = "Historical Biology",
issn = "0891-2963",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "4",
}