Burmese amber (Purdue collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

• "...inclusions in the piece are numerous frass pellets and wood fragments, further suggestive (besides body form) of arboreal/wood nesting habits of the ant..."
• "reddish-orange amber..."or "transparent yellow amber"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original chitin, amber

Collected by Leeward Capitol Corp. in 2003

• Collected in 2003, deposited in the Purdue Entomological Research collection, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

Primary reference: W. P. McCafferty and J. A. Santiago-Blay. 2008. A new Cretaceous mayfly from Burmese amber (Ephemeroptera: Australiphemeridae). Entomological News 119:492-496 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124697: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Ephemeroptera - Australiphemeridae
Nanophemera myanmarensis n. gen. n. sp.
Nanophemera myanmarensis n. gen. n. sp. McCafferty and Santiago-Blay 2008 mayfly