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

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