Burmese amber, Kachin amber (SIZK collection) (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

• "reddish-orange amber..."or "transparent yellow amber"

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: amber

Collection methods: Repository: Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine (SIZK)

Primary reference: E. E. Perkovsky and Z. A. Fedotova. 2017. The second Cretaceous gall midge genus of the tribe Diallactiini (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) from the Late Cretaceous Burmese amber. Vestnik Zoologii 51:117-124 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186684: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Cecidomyiidae
Ganseriella pankowskiorum n. gen. n. sp.
Ganseriella pankowskiorum n. gen. n. sp. Fedotova and Perkovsky 2017 gall midge
SIZK Bu-1
 Coleoptera - Lophocateridae
Zaiwa pankowskiorum n. gen. n. sp.4
Zaiwa pankowskiorum n. gen. n. sp.4 Lyubarsky et al. 2021 beetle
SIZK Bu-300
Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Pupinidae
Burminella artiukhini n. gen. n. sp.3
Burminella artiukhini n. gen. n. sp.3 Balashov et al. 2021 snail
SIZK Bu-301
 Architaenioglossa - Diplommatinidae
Euthema truncatellina n. sp.2, Euthema annae n. sp.1
Euthema truncatellina n. sp.2 Balashov et al. 2020 snail
SIZK Bu-199
Euthema annae n. sp.1 Balashov 2021 snail
SIZK GT 7174
1Balashov 2021; 2Balashov et al. 2020; 3Balashov et al. 2021; 4Lyubarsky et al. 2021