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

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: Skartveit personal collection, later Senckenberg German Entomological Institute, Müncheberg, Germany (SDEI).

Primary reference: J. Skartveit. 2023. When the past meets the present: the oldest known Bibioninae, and the youngest known Cretobibioninae (Diptera, Bibionidae) from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Zootaxa 5258:548-556 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133102: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 02.09.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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