Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Skartveit/SDEI collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: Skartveit personal collection, later Senckenberg German Entomological Institute, Müncheberg, Germany (SDEI).

Primary reference: J. Skartveit. 2023. When the past meets the present: the oldest known Bibioninae, and the youngest known Cretobibioninae (Diptera, Bibionidae) from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Zootaxa 5258:548-556 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133102: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 02.09.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Bibionidae
Protodilophus semispinosus n. gen. n. sp. Skartveit 2023 march fly
JS-Burmite 046/SDEI-Amb-002531
Cretobibio burmiticus n. sp. Skartveit 2023 march fly
JS-Burmite 043/SDEI-Amb-002530