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A new Myrmecarchaea (Araneae: Archaeidae) species from Oise amber (earliest Eocene, France)
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2020 Extant Archaeidae, also known as pelican or assassin spiders, have an Austral distribution (South Africa, Madagascar and Australia), but were present in Eurasia during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, as attested by fossils from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Ross ...
Carbuccia Benjamin +4 more
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Insects, 2021 Three new species of Paleoplatyura Meunier, 1899, i.e., Paleoplatyura agnieszkae sp. nov., P. miae sp. nov., and P. magnifica sp. nov., are described and figured. The concept of the genus is briefly discussed, and its systematic position is clarified.
Jan Ševčík +2 more
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A new Babinskaiidae from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Insecta, Neuroptera, Myrmeleontoidea) [PDF]
, 2020 International audienceWe describe Parababinskaia douteaui sp. nov., second representative of its genus in the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. This genus was originally known after a compression fossil from the Brazilian Crato Formation.
Nel, André +4 more
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A miniaturized ommatid beetle in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae) [PDF]
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2020 Recent findings of ommatids from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber have greatly increased our knowledge on the Mesozoic diversity of Ommatidae. Here, we report the first distinctly miniaturized ommatid species, Miniomma chenkuni gen. et sp.
Yan-Da Li +3 more
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Kekveus brevisulcatus sp. nov., a new featherwing beetle from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Ptiliidae (featherwing beetles) is a group of minute staphylinoid beetles with a scarce fossil record. Here a second member of the Mesozoic genus Kekveus Yamamoto et al.
Yan-Da Li +3 more
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Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography 2018 [PDF]
, 2019 A list of all known taxa described or recorded from Burmese amber from the published literature up to the end of 2018 is given, along with a comprehensive bibliography.
Ross, Andrew
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Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2016 AbstractOur knowledge of Cretaceous plumage is limited by the fossil record itself: compression fossils surrounding skeletons lack the finest morphological details and seldom preserve visible traces of colour, while discoveries in amber have been disassociated from their source animals.
Xing L +12 more
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A review of Burmese amber arachnids
Journal of Arachnology, 2017 Fossils from the mid-Cretaceous (c. 99 Ma) Myanmar (Burma) amber include all extant orders of Arachnida, including the earliest representatives of Schizomida, Parasitiformes, and Palpigradi. Schizomids are figured from Burmese amber herein for the first time.
Selden, Paul A, Ren, Dong
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The first species of Parelcana and the second species of Longioculus (Orthoptera, Elcanidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber [PDF]
Journal of Orthoptera ResearchA new species of Parelcana Handlirsch, 1906, Parelcana xena sp. nov., is described from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The specimen consists of a well-preserved wing apparatus and parts of the thorax including pro- and mesothoracic legs.
Ole-Kristian Odin Schall +1 more
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