Burmese amber (JSSNU 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: JSSNU, Jiangsu Second Normal University, Nanjing

Primary reference: Z. S. Song, G. H. Xu, A. P. Liang, J. Szwedo, and T. Bourgoin. 2019. Still greater disparity in basal planthopper lineage: A new planthopper family Yetkhatidae (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Fulgoroidea) from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Cretaceous Research 101:47-60 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201722: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.05.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Hemiptera - Mimarachnidae
Ayaimatum trilobatum n. gen. n. sp.1
Ayaimatum trilobatum n. gen. n. sp.1 Jiang and Szwedo 2020 planthopper
JSSNU 2019005
 Hemiptera - Dorytocidae
Dorytocus jiaxiaoae n. sp.2, Dorytocus ornithorhynchus2
Dorytocus jiaxiaoae n. sp.2 Song et al. 2021 planthopper
JSSNU-2019002
Dorytocus ornithorhynchus2 Emeljanov and Shcherbakov 2018 planthopper
JSSNU2020001
 Hemiptera - Yetkhatidae
Yetkhata jiangershii n. gen. n. sp.
Yetkhata jiangershii n. gen. n. sp. Song et al. 2019 planthopper
JSSNU-2018001
1Jiang et al. 2020; 2Song et al. 2021