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: Hokkaido University Museum (HUM), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (SEHU)

Primary reference: M. S. Caterino and S. Yamamoto. 2023. New onthophiline fossil species (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Onthophilinae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The Coleopterists Bulletin 77:432-438 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231947: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.10.2023

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