Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NMNS Tsukuba collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

Where: Myanmar (26.4° N, 96.7° E: paleocoordinates 12.4° N, 93.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: amber

Collection methods: Repository: National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan (NMNS)

Primary reference: T. Hirano, K. Asato, S. Yamamoto, Y. Takahashi, and S. Chiba. 2019. Cretaceous amber fossils highlight the evolutionary history and morphological conservatism of land snails. Scientific Reports 9(15886) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231078: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.08.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Cyclophoridae
"Lagocheilus electrospira n. sp." = Eotrichophorus electrospira, Archaeocyclotus plicatula n. gen. n. sp., Lagocheilus cretaspira n. sp.
"Lagocheilus electrospira n. sp." = Eotrichophorus electrospira Asato and Hirano 2019 snail
NMNS PM 28273
Archaeocyclotus plicatula n. gen. n. sp. Asato and Hirano 2019 snail
NMNS PM 27992
Lagocheilus cretaspira n. sp. Asato and Hirano 2019 snail
NMNS PM 28272
 Architaenioglossa - Pupinidae
Schistoloma electrothauma n. sp. Asato and Hirano 2019 snail
NMNS PM 27993
 Architaenioglossa - Diplommatinidae
Euthema hesoana n. sp. Asato and Hirano 2019 snail
NMNS PM 28274