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New species of Tanaidacea from Cretaceous Kachin amber, with a brief review of the fossil record of tanaidacean crustaceans [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2023 Tanaidaceans are benthic, mostly marine, crustaceans that live burrowed in the substrate or in self-built tubes. The fossil record of Tanaidacea reaches back to the Carboniferous, 350 million years ago, but it is especially species-rich in Cretaceous ...
Paula G. Pazinato +2 more
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Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2023 Convergent evolution is a common phenomenon, independently leading to similar morphologies in different evolutionary lineages. Often similar functional demands drive convergent evolution. One example is the independent evolution of grasping structures in
Carolin Haug +3 more
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In search for the unlikely: Leaf-mining caterpillars (Gracillariidae, Lepidoptera) from Upper Cretaceous and Eocene ambers [PDF]
Zitteliana, 2021 Fossil leaf-mining caterpillars from amber are firstly described as the new species Phyllocnistis cretacea from Upper Cretaceous Myanmar amber and Phyllonorycter inopinata from Eocene Baltic amber.
Thilo C. Fischer
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Earliest fossil record of Corylophidae from Burmese amber and phylogeny of Corylophidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea) [PDF]
Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 2022 The family Corylophidae is a moderately diverse coccinelloid beetle family. The fossil record of corylophid beetles is extremely sparse, with only one species formally described from the Eocene Baltic amber.
Yan-Da Li +4 more
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New record of podocopid ostracods from Cretaceous amber [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Burmese Cretaceous amber (∼99 Ma, Myanmar) is famous for the preservation of a wide range of fauna and flora, including representatives of marine, freshwater and terrestrial groups.
He Wang +3 more
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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 +15 more
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Scorpions trapped in amber: a remarkable window on their evolution over time from the Mesozoic period to present days [PDF]
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2023 This synoptic review aims to bring some general information on fossil scorpions, namely those trapped in amber - fossilized resin - ranging from Lower Cretaceous through the Palaeocene and up to the Miocene.
Wilson R. Lourenço
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The lower Cenomanian Kachin amber from Myanmar contains a species-rich assemblage with numerous plant and animal fossils. Terrestrial and, to a lesser degree, freshwater species predominate in this assemblage, while a few taxa with marine affinities were
Ivan N. Bolotov +5 more
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Insects, 2022 Burmochares groehnigen. et sp. nov., the oldest known representative of the subfamily Limnichinae and tribe Limnichini, is described from the Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. The new genus Hernandocharesgen. nov.
Alexander G. Kirejtshuk +1 more
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Insects, 2022 The abundance of insects in Burmese amber illustrates a highly diverse insect community of the mid-Cretaceous, but the records of crickets are relatively rare. Here, we erect two new genera with two new species, Birmanioecanthus haplostichus gen.
Wei Yuan +4 more
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