Burmese amber (Ruipoxuan Amber Museum 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: Ruipoxuan Amber Museum, Jinan

Primary reference: W. Wichard, M. Espeland, and B. Wang. 2018. Caddisflies with unusual hair-fans on the legs in Cretaceous Burmese amber (Insecta, Trichoptera). Palaeodiversity 11:21-28 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193537: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae
Laticephalana liuyani n. gen. n. sp.1
Laticephalana liuyani n. gen. n. sp.1 Luo et al. 2021 winged insect
RPX19001
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Chonidris insolita2, Dhagnathos autokrator2, Aquilomyrmex huangi2, Linguamyrmex brevicornis2
Chonidris insolita2 Perrichot et al. 2020 hell ant
RM2
Dhagnathos autokrator2 Perrichot et al. 2020 hell ant
RM1
Aquilomyrmex huangi2 Perrichot et al. 2020 hell ant
RM3
Linguamyrmex brevicornis2 Perrichot et al. 2020 hell ant
RM4
 Trichoptera - Helicopsychidae
Cretahelicopsyche liuyani n. gen. n. sp.
Cretahelicopsyche liuyani n. gen. n. sp. Wichard et al. 2018 snail-case caddisfly
RPX18001
1Luo et al. 2021; 2Perrichot et al. 2020