Also known as Khamti

Where: Sagaing, Myanmar (25.7° N, 95.8° E: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 98.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• Zircon analyses (n = 143) of four tuff samples that host the amber deposit in different pits yielded a weighted-mean age of 109.7 ± 0.4 Ma.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: Department of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences (DAFNE), University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy.

Primary reference: M. Olmi, E. E. Perkovsky, A. Guglielmno, L. Capradossi, and C. Jouault. 2020. Discovery of the first species of Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) from Hkamti (Myanmar) amber. Palaeoentomology 3:556-560 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228880: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2023

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