PBDB Collection

Burmese amber (SYSU 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: Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU)

Primary reference: Z. H. Liu, A. Ślipiński, D. Ren and H. Pang. 2019. The first Mesozoic Helotidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea). Cretaceous Research 96:113-119 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198811: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.01.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
Hemiptera - Yuripopovinidae	Megaoptocoris similis n. sp.¹⁰, Megaoptocoris punctatus n. gen. n. sp.¹⁰ Megaoptocoris similis n. sp.¹⁰ Zhou et al. 2022 true bug SYS-XLAB-MMR-HET-21005 Megaoptocoris punctatus n. gen. n. sp.¹⁰ Zhou et al. 2022 true bug SYS-XLAB-MMR-HET-20018
Hemiptera - Enicocephalidae	Allocephalocoris zhengi n. gen. n. sp.⁷ Allocephalocoris zhengi n. gen. n. sp.⁷ Luo et al. 2020 unique-headed bug SYS-XLAB-MMR-HET-18032, 18007
Hemiptera - Aenictopecheidae	Cretocephalus stysi n. gen. n. sp.⁸ Cretocephalus stysi n. gen. n. sp.⁸ Luo and Xie 2022 true bug SYS-XLAB-MMR-HET-21056
Hymenoptera - Braconidae	Chainochora syntoma n. gen. n. sp.¹, Kleistochora dolichura n. gen. n. sp.¹, Tibialobracon laevis n. sp.⁴, Vertibracon brevistigma n. gen. n. sp.⁴ Chainochora syntoma n. gen. n. sp.¹ Chen and van Achterberg 2021 wasp SYS SCAU 3049442 Kleistochora dolichura n. gen. n. sp.¹ Chen and van Achterberg 2021 wasp SYS SCAU 3019084 Tibialobracon laevis n. sp.⁴ Chen and van Achterberg 2023 wasp SYSBM En-420878 Vertibracon brevistigma n. gen. n. sp.⁴ Chen and van Achterberg 2023 wasp SYSBM En-420877
Coleoptera - Dytiscidae	Ambarticus myanmaricus n. gen. n. sp.⁹ Ambarticus myanmaricus n. gen. n. sp.⁹ Yang et al. 2019 predaceous diving beetle SYS-ENAM0009
Coleoptera - Gyrinidae	Cretodineutus rotundus n. gen. n. sp.⁵ Cretodineutus rotundus n. gen. n. sp.⁵ Liang et al. 2020 whirligig beetle SYS-ENAM0010
Coleoptera - Eucinetidae	Eucinetus parvus n. sp.² Eucinetus parvus n. sp.² Du et al. 2020 plate-thigh beetle SYS-ENAM0011
Coleoptera - Monotomidae	Cretolenax carinatus⁶ Cretolenax carinatus⁶ Liu et al. 2019 root eating beetle SYS-ENAM0008
Coleoptera - Helotidae	Burmahelota pengweii n. gen. n. sp. Burmahelota pengweii n. gen. n. sp. Liu et al. 2019 beetle SYS-ENAM0006
Coleoptera - Passandridae	Mesopassandra keyao n. gen. n. sp.³ Mesopassandra keyao n. gen. n. sp.³ Jin et al. 2019 parasitic flat bark beetle SYS-ENAM0007

¹Chen et al. 2021; ²Du et al. 2020; ³Jin et al. 2019; ⁴Li et al. 2023; ⁵Liang et al. 2020; ⁶Liu et al. 2019; ⁷Luo et al. 2020; ⁸Luo and Xie 2022; ⁹Yang et al. 2019; ¹⁰Zhou et al. 2022