Burmese amber (Übersee-Museum Bremen collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

Where: Myanmar (26.4° N, 96.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 8.3° N, 105.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Early/Lower Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: amber

Collection methods: Repository: Übersee-Museum Bremen (assumed that earlier specimens from collection of V. Lohrmann are deposited there)

Primary reference: V. Lohrmann and M. S. Engel. 2017. The wasp larva’s last supper: 100 million years of evolutionary stasis in the larval development of rhopalosomatid wasps (Hymenoptera: Rhopalosomatidae). Fossil Record 20:239-244 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188399: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.08.2017

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Orthoptera - Gryllidae
Gryllidae indet. Laicharting 1781 true crickets
 Hymenoptera - Rhopalosomatidae
Rhopalosomatidae indet. wasp
fourth-instar larva on cricket
Cretolixon alatum Lohrmann 2020 wasp
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