Where: Kachin, Myanmar (26.3° N, 96.7° E: paleocoordinates 12.4° N, 93.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-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
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 and Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Electrorana limoae n. gen. n. sp.
Electrorana limoae n. gen. n. sp. Xing et al. 2018 frog DIP-L-0826 - holotype; referred specimens: DIP-V-16119, DIP-V-16121, DIP-V-16127
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Reptilia | |
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Aves | |
Elektorornis chenguangi n. gen. n. sp.4
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Gastropoda | |
Hirsuticyclus electrum n. gen. n. sp.2
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Malacostraca | |
Cretapsara athanata n. gen. n. sp.1
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