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Paleobiota Of Burmese Amber
Burmese amber is fossil resin dating to the early Late Cretaceous Cenomanian age recovered from deposits in the Hukawng Valley of northern Myanmar. It is known for being one of the most diverse Cretaceous age amber paleobiotas, containing rich arthropod fossils, along with uncommon vertebrate fossils and even rare marine inclusions. A mostly complete list of all taxa described up until 2018 can be found in Ross 2018; its supplement Ross 2019b covers most of 2019.Ross, A.J. 2019b. Burmese (Myanmar) amber taxa, on-line supplement v.2019.2'. 33pp. Amoebozoa Dictyostelia Myxogastria ''Incertae sedis'' Apicomplexa Aconoidasida Haemosporida Conoidasida Eugregarinorida Euglenozoa Kinetoplastea Trypanosomatida Metamonada Anaeromonadea Oxymonadida Trichonymphea Trichonymphida Trichomonadea Cristamonadida Spirotrichonymphida Trichomonadida "Opisthokonta" Mesomycetozoea Eccrinales Proteobacteria Alphaproteobacteria Rickettsiales Plants Chlorophyte green algaes Chae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burmese Amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The amber is of significant palaeontological interest due to the diversity of flora and fauna contained as inclusions, particularly arthropods including insects and arachnids but also birds, lizards, snakes, frogs and fragmentary dinosaur remains. The amber has been known and commercially exploited since the first century AD, and has been known to science since the mid-nineteenth century. Research on the deposit has attracted controversy due to its alleged role in funding internal conflict in Myanmar and hazardous working conditions in the mines where it is collected. Geological context, depositional environment and age The amber is found within the Hukawng Basin, a large Cretaceous-Cenozoic sedimentary basin within northern Myanmar. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
