Burmese amber (MAI Gdansk coll) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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

• coordinate stated in text

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 class: mesofossils

Preservation: amber

Collection methods: Repository: Museum of Amber Inclusions, University of Gdańsk

Primary reference: R. Szadziewski, W. Giłka, and A. Urbanek. 2015. A blood sucking biting midge from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber with a key to the determination of fossil species in the relictual genus Leptoconops Skuse (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Cretaceous Research 54:255-259 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165560: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Anamorphidae
Palaeosymbius mesozoicus n. sp.2
Palaeosymbius mesozoicus n. sp.2 Arriaga‐Varela et al. 2024 beetle
MAIG 7077
 Coleoptera - Endomychidae
Cretaparamecus angustus n. sp.1, Cretostenotarsus striatus n. gen. n. sp.9
Cretaparamecus angustus n. sp.1 Arriaga-Varela et al. 2023 handsome fungus beetle
MAIG 6002
Cretostenotarsus striatus n. gen. n. sp.9 Tomaszewska et al. 2022 handsome fungus beetle
MAIG 5999
 Hemiptera - Dinglidae
Dingla shagria n. gen. n. sp.3
Dingla shagria n. gen. n. sp.3 Szwedo and Drohojowska 2020 true bug
MAIG 5979, 5980
 Hemiptera - Liadopsyllidae
Amecephala pusilla n. gen. n. sp.4
Amecephala pusilla n. gen. n. sp.4 Drohojowska et al. 2020 jumping plant louse
MAIG 6686
 Hemiptera - Postopsyllidiidae
Megalophthallidion sp.5, Megalophthallidion burmapateron n. gen. n. sp.5
Megalophthallidion sp.5 Drohojowska and Szwedo 2022 true bug
MAIG 6688 (BUB 1799)
Megalophthallidion burmapateron n. gen. n. sp.5 Drohojowska and Szwedo 2022 true bug
MAIG 6687 (BUB 96)
 Hemiptera - Paraprotopsyllidiidae
Maliawa akrawna n. gen. n. sp.7
Maliawa akrawna n. gen. n. sp.7 Drohojowska and Szwedo 2020 true bug
MAIG 6689
 Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Leptoconops (Leptoconops) ellenbergeri n. sp., Culicoides (Groganomyia) ellenbergeri n. sp.8
Leptoconops (Leptoconops) ellenbergeri n. sp. Szadziewski 2015 biting midge
MIB 5613
Culicoides (Groganomyia) ellenbergeri n. sp.8 Szadziewski and Dominiak 2019 biting midge
MAI 5666
 Diptera - Chironomidae
Furcobuchonomyia pankowskii n. sp.6
Furcobuchonomyia pankowskii n. sp.6 Giłka and Zakrzewska 2017 non biting midge
MAIG 5949
1Arriaga-Varela et al. 2023; 2Arriaga‐Varela et al. 2024; 3Drohojowska et al. 2020; 4Drohojowska et al. 2020; 5Drohojowska et al. 2022; 6Giłka and Zakrzewska 2017; 7Hakim et al. 2020; 8Szadziewski et al. 2019; 9Tomaszewska et al. 2022