Burmese amber, Kachin amber (DIZP Gdansk 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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: Laboratory of Systematic Zoology in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology (LSZ DIZP), University of Gdańsk, Poland

Primary reference: W. Giłka, E. A. Makarchenko, M. K. Pankowski and M. Zakrzewska. 2019. Myanmaro primus gen. et sp. nov., the first orthoclad (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Cretaceous Burmese amber. Zootaxa 4565:61-70 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 200099: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.03.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Chironomidae
Burmochlus madmaxi n. gen. n. sp., Myanmaro primus n. gen. n. sp.
Burmochlus madmaxi n. gen. n. sp. Giłka et al. 2019 non biting midge
F2a LSZ DIZP
Myanmaro primus n. gen. n. sp. Giłka et al. 2019 non biting midge
F1a LSZ DIZP