Where: Kachin, Myanmar (26.3° N, 96.6° E: paleocoordinates 12.3° N, 93.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "A mid-Cretaceous age has been assigned to both the amber and surrounding rock. There are thousands of arthropods in the amber considered to be from the Turonian– Cenomanian, as well as a specimen of the ammonite Mortoniceras (Middle-Upper Albian) and distinctive palynomorphs (Upper Albian to Lower Cenomanian) from the amber-bearing horizon, among many other biological inclusions. A recent study using U-Pb dating of zircons in amber-bearing rock refined the date to 98.79 Ma ± 0.62 Ma. This date was further verified by a newly-discovered Late Albian–Early Cenomanian ammonite, Puzosia (Bhimaites), found among the amber inclusions. A 98.79 ± 0.62 Ma (earliest Cenomanian) origin is now the most widely accepted age for the Hukawng Valley amber mine" (Shi et al. 2022)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: amber

Collection methods: Repository: Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Shandong, China

Primary reference: C. Shi, S. Wang, H.-H. Cai, H.-R. Zhang, X.-X. Long, E. Tihelka, W.-C. Song, Q. Feng, R.-X. Jiang, C.-Y. Cai, N. Lombard, X. Li, J. Yuan, J.-P. Zhu, H.-Y. Yang, X.-F. Liu, Q.-P. Xiang, Z.-T. Zhao, C.-L. Long, H. Schneider, X.-C. Zhang, H. Peng, D.-Z. Li and Y. Fan. 2022. Fire-prone Rhamnaceae with South African affinities in Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Nature Plants 8:125-135 [B. Allen/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 227277: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 29.09.2022, edited by Morgan Ellingsworth

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