Where: Myanmar (26.4° N, 96.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 96.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Because this was sent by Mr. R.C.J. Swinhoe (the supplier of Burmese amber) from the Hukong Valley, Cockerell assumed it was amber. Later authors, including Cockerell 1922, have identified the piece as copal "no earlier than Pleistocene" based on the presence of the living Indian Trigona laeviceps Smith and other modern types.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: amber
Collected by R. C. J. Swinhoe; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum - VII. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 8:541-545 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 151870: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.10.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Meliponorytes devictus n. sp." = Tetragonula (Tetragonula) iridipennis, "Trigona laeviceps" = Tetragonula (Tetragonula) laeviceps
"Meliponorytes devictus n. sp." = Tetragonula (Tetragonula) iridipennis Smith 1854 stingless bee BMNH In.20702
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