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Issue: Vol. 8 No. 1: February 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-28
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.8.1.4
Page range: 12-28
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Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2024

Department of Natural Sciences, National Museum of Scotland, Chambers St., Edinburgh EH1 1JF, UK
Myanmar Burmese amber Cretaceous insects arachnids invertebrates plants fungi

Abstract

This is a supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography covering taxa described or recorded during 2024. Up to the end of 2024, 2,989 species have been recorded from Kachin amber (excluding trace fossils and marine encrusters), of which 226 were named in 2024. Additionally, 21 species have been recorded from older Hkamti amber (three named in 2024) and two species from younger Tilin amber (both named in 2024). Another three species were named in 2024, though it is uncertain whether they are in Kachin, Hkamti or Tilin amber. In total, 235 species (including one trace fossil) were named from Cretaceous amber from Myanmar during 2024.

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