Burmese amber, Kachin amber (André Schmidt collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

Where: Myanmar (26.4° N, 96.7° E: paleocoordinates 12.4° N, 93.8° E)

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: collection of Mr André Schmidt (4800 Zofingen, Switzerland)

Primary reference: W. R. Lourenço and J. Velten. 2024. An exceptional new genus of fossil scorpion from Burmese Cretaceous amber belonging to the family Palaeoburmesebuthidae Lourenço, 2015. Faunitaxys 12(13):1-7 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234345: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.04.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Scorpiones - Palaeoburmesebuthidae
Paranotaburmesebuthus schmidti n. gen. n. sp. Lourenço 2024 scorpion