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†Cretolixon – a remarkable new genus of rhopalosomatid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Rhopalosomatidae) from chemically tested, mid-Cretaceous Burmese (Kachin) amber supports the monophyly of Rhopalosomatinae [PDF]

Fossil Record, 2020
Rhopalosomatidae, currently considered the sister group of the Vespidae, are an enigmatic family of aculeate wasps that originated in the Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous. Despite their considerable age, very few fossils of the family have been reported
V. Lohrmann, V. Lohrmann, Q. Zhang, Q. Zhang, P. Michalik, J. Blaschke, P. Müller, L. Jeanneau, V. Perrichot   +8 more
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Character evolution of modern eupolypods supports the assignment of the fossil fern Cretacifilix fungiformis to Dryopteridaceae

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
The fossil fern species Cretacifilix fungiformis from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber from Myanmar was previously assigned to eupolypod ferns for having sporangia with a vertical annulus and sporangial stalks 2–3 cells thick, along with monolete spores with ...
Ledis Regalado, Harald Schneider, Patrick Müller, Alexander R. Schmidt   +3 more
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Burmese Amber Fossils, Mining, Sales and Profits [PDF]

Geoconservation Research, 2020
The present work investigates the mining and sale of fossiliferous Burmese amber to determine if the profits are being used by the Myanmar military to commit atrocities against minority groups or ethnic armies within the country, as recently implied ...
George Poinar, Sieghard Ellenberger
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New Cretaceous antlion-like lacewings promote a phylogenetic reappraisal of the extinct myrmeleontoid family Babinskaiidae

Scientific Reports, 2021
Babinskaiidae is an extinct family of the lacewing superfamily Myrmeleontoidea, currently only recorded from the Cretaceous. The phylogenetic position of this family is elusive, with inconsistent inferences in previous studies.
Xiumei Lu, Bo Wang, Xingyue Liu
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A soldier beetle larva in about 100 million years old amber adds chemical defence to the list of anti-predator strategies of immatures in the Kachin amber forest fauna

Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments
Soldier beetles have a relatively good fossil record, especially from Baltic amber and Kachin amber, Myanmar, summing up to about 200 formally described species of Cantharidae. Compared to 5500 extant species, this seems still not ample.
J. Haug, C. Haug
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Late Cretaceous amber biota from central Myanmar

Nature Communications, 2018
The amber deposits from Kachin, Myanmar have provided numerous insights into life in the Cretaceous ~99 million years ago. Here, Zheng and colleagues describe a new Late Cretaceous amber biota from Tilin, Myanmar, dating from ~72 million years ago and ...
Daran Zheng, Su-Chin Chang, Vincent Perrichot, Suryendu Dutta, Arka Rudra, Lin Mu, Richard S. Kelly, Sha Li, Qi Zhang, Qingqing Zhang, Jean Wong, Jun Wang, He Wang, Yan Fang, Haichun Zhang, Bo Wang   +15 more
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First record of the subfamily Brenthorrhininae (Coleoptera, Nemonychidae) in Cretaceous Kachin amber.

Zootaxa
A new tribe, Burmoptarthrini Legalov, trib. nov. from the subfamily Brenthorrhininae (Nemonychidae), with a new genus and species, Burmoptarthrus storozhenkoi Legalov, gen. et sp. nov., is described and illustrated from late Cretaceous Kachin amber. This
A. A. Legalov
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Shared Vocabulary between Meiteilon and Tai Varieties and Pre‐Modern Language Contact on the Indo‐Myanmar Border1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines lexical and phonological evidence for language contact between Old and modern Meiteilon (Manipuri) and Tai varieties, identifying loanwords relating to domestic life, trade and literary culture. Comparative data from Shan dialects and Old Meiteilon manuscripts such as the Cheitharon Kumpapa are employed in contextualising
Josiah Medin
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The Earliest Feathers from the Lower Cretaceous Dabeigou Formation of North Hebei: Implications for the Early Evolution of the Jehol Biota

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This study reports two isolated feather fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Dabeigou Formation in northeastern China. Morphological analyses identified them as the earliest known feathered theropods (potentially including avian) in the Jehol Biota. This finding reveals a complex ecosystem at the dawn of the Jehol Biota, bridging the temporal and faunal ...
Qian Wu, Qian‐Nan Zhang, Dang‐Peng Xi   +2 more
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Rediscovery of Strobilanthes panichanga and discovery of Strobilanthes parryorum (Acanthaceae): two endangered species from the hills of Dima Hasao, Assam, India

Nordic Journal of Botany, Volume 2026, Issue 8, August 2026.
We report on two species of Strobilanthes Blume. Strobilanthes panichanga (Nees) T.Anderson has been rediscovered in the Dima Hasao district of Assam, India, after a very long gap of 150 years, and Strobilanthes parryorum C.E.C.Fisch has been discovered for the first time in Assam, India.
Kapil Kumar Kemprai, Souravjyoti Borah
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