Burmese amber (Ning Wang collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

Where: Myanmar (26.4° N, 96.7° E: paleocoordinates 12.4° N, 93.8° E)

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When: Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: amber

Collection methods: Repository: private collection of Ning Wang (on long-term loan to Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Primary reference: M. Bai, R. G. Beutel, W. W. Zhang, S. Wang, M. Hörnig, C. Gröhn, E. Yan, X. K. Yang, and B. Wipfler. 2018. A new Cretaceous insect with a unique cephalo-thoracic scissor device. Current Biology 28:438-443 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191655: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.02.2018

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Alienoptera - Alienopteridae
Caputoraptor elegans Bai et al. 2018 winged insect
JG-QC-2016-10-01