PBDB Collection

Burmese amber (QUST collection): Early Cenomanian, Myanmar

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Insecta - Coleoptera - Lophocateridae

	Mesolophocateres pengweii Yu et al. 2020	Yu et al. 2020	1 specimen
	QUST-INSECT-0007 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Monotomidae

	Cretolenax carinatus Liu et al. 2019	Liu et al. 2019	1 specimen
	QUST-INSECT-004

	Cretakarenni birmanicus Peris and Delclòs 2015		1 specimen
	QUST-INSECT-0003
Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

	Burmagrilus cretacus n. gen., n. sp. Jiang et al. 2021	Jiang et al. 2021	1 specimen
	QUST-INSECT-0015 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Bostrichidae

	Alitrepanum aladelicatum n. gen., n. sp. Peng et al. 2022	Peng et al. 2022	3 specimens
	QUST-SHUO-0001, 0002
Insecta - Coleoptera - Synteliidae

	Syntelia sunwukong n. sp. Jiang and Wang 2021	Jiang and Wang 2021	1 specimen
	QUST-INSECT-0006 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Histeridae

	Onthophilus yingae n. sp. Jiang et al. 2020	Jiang et al. 2020	1 specimen
	QUST-INSECT-0010 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

	Cretotrichopsenius burmiticus Cai et al. 2017	Jiang et al. 2021	1 specimen
	QUST-INSECT-0015

	Micropeplus pengweii n. sp. Jiang et al. 2020	Jiang et al. 2020	1 specimen
	QUST-INSECT-0005 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Blattodea - Arceotermitidae

	Arceotermes hospitis n. gen., n. sp. Engel and Jiang 2021	Jiang et al. 2021	1 specimen
	QUST-INSECT-0015
Insecta - Diptera - Dolichopodidae

	Pristinmicrophor hukawngensis n. gen., n. sp. Tang et al. 2019	Tang et al. 2019	1 specimen
	QUST Y13-1 (2 measurements)
see common names

Geography

Country:	Myanmar
Coordinates:	26.4° North, 96.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	12.4° North, 93.8° East
Basis of coordinate:	stated in text

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late Cretaceous
Stage:	Cenomanian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:	Early Cenomanian
Age range of interval:	100.5 - 93.9 m.y. ago
Age estimate:	maximum 98.79 ± 0.62 Ma (U/Pb)

Stratigraphy

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	amber
Includes fossils?	Y
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body,amber
Size of fossils:	mesofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China (QUST)

Metadata

Database number:	201881
Authorizer:	M. Clapham	Enterer:	M. Clapham
Modifier:	M. Clapham	Research group:	paleoentomology
Created:	2019-06-06 22:13:24	Last modified:	2021-06-13 00:25:04
Access level:	the public	Released:	2019-06-06 22:13:24
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

69122.

R. X. Jiang, Z. H. Liu, and S. Wang. 2019. Fossil evidence for sexual dimorphism in Monotomidae beetles from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 102:7-11 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

70139		R. X. Jiang, Z. Peng, and S. Wang. 2020. The oldest Micropeplus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Micropeplinae) species from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 106(104218) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
71983		R. X. Jiang, W. C. Song, H. Y. Yang, C. Shi, and S. Wang. 2020. Discovery of the first Onthophilus species from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Cretaceous Research 111(104443) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
77135		R. X. Jiang, H. T. Song, H. R. Zhang and S. Wang. 2021. Burmagrilus cretacus gen. et sp. nov., the first Buprestidae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 125(104866) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
75162		R. X. Jiang and S. Wang. 2021. Syntelia sunwukong sp. nov., the oldest Synteliid beetle (Coleoptera: Histeroidea) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 119(104709) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
84014		R. X. Jiang, H. R. Zhang, K. T. Eldredge, X. B. Song, Y. D. Li, E. Tihelka, D. Y. Huang, S. Wang, M. S. Engel and C. Y. Cai. 2021. Further evidence of Cretaceous termitophily: Description of new termite hosts of the trichopseniine Cretotrichopsenius (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), with emendations to the classification of lower termites (Isoptera). Palaeoentomology 4:374-389 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
70830		Y. H. Liu, E. Tihelka, T. C. McElrath, S. Yamamoto, A., B. Wang, D. Ren and H. Pang. 2019. New minute clubbed beetles (Coleoptera, Monotomidae, Lenacini) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 107(104255) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
81960		Y. Peng, R. X. Jiang, C. Shi, W. C. Song, X. X. Long, M. S. Engel, and S. Wang. 2022. Alitrepaninae, a new subfamily of auger beetles from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae). Cretaceous Research 137(105244) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
70312		C. F. Tang, C. Shi, S. Wang and D. Yang. 2019. The first report of Dolichopodidae from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 104(104179) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
78774		Y. L. Yu, R. A. B. Leschen, A., D. Ren, S. Wang and H. Pang. 2020. Mesozoic Cleroidea (Coleoptera): First record of mid-Cretaceous Lophocateridae from Burmese amber and notes on the disputed genera Cervicatinius Tan & Ren (Trogossitidae) and Forticatinius Tan & Ren (Artematopodidae). Cretaceous Research 119(104680) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]