Also known as Hukawng Valley

Where: Kachin, Myanmar (26.3° N, 96.7° E: paleocoordinates 12.4° N, 93.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Dating of zircons from the volcaniclastic matrix in these deposits provides an age of 98.8 ± 0.6 million years

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, amber

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. Xing, E. L. Stanley, M. Bai and D. C. Blackburn. 2018. The earliest direct evidence of frogs in wet tropical forests from Cretaceous Burmese amber. Scientific Reports 8:8770:1-8 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194175: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 15.06.2018, edited by Patricia Holroyd, Joanna Wolfe, Matthew Clapham, Mark Uhen and Matthew Carrano

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