@article {1450, title = {Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2021}, journal = {Palaeoentomology}, volume = {5}, year = {2022}, month = {Feb-23-2022}, pages = {27-45}, abstract = {

This is a supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography covering taxa described or recorded during 2021, plus a few earlier records that were missed previously. Up to the end of 2021, 2,198 species were recorded from Kachin amber of which 337 were named in 2021. Five species were named or recorded from older Hkamti amber.

}, keywords = {Arachnids, Burmese amber, Cretaceous, insects, invertebrates, Myanmar, plants, vertebrates}, issn = {2624-2834, 2624-2826}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.1.4}, url = {https://mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.5.1.4}, author = {Ross, Andrew J.} } @article {1391, title = {Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2020}, journal = {Palaeoentomology}, volume = {4}, year = {2021}, month = {26/02/2021}, pages = {57{\textendash}76}, abstract = {

This is a supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography covering taxa described or recorded during 2020, plus a few earlier records that were missed previously. Up to the end of 2020, 1,859 species were recorded from Kachin amber of which 362 were named in 2020, which is the highest number of species named from any kind of amber in one year. Two species were also named from older Hkamti amber.

}, keywords = {Arachnids, Burmese amber, Cretaceous, fungi, insects, invertebrates, Myanmar, plants, protists, vertebrates}, issn = {2624-2826}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.1.11}, url = {https://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.4.1.11}, author = {Ross, Andrew J.} } @article {1390, title = {Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2019}, journal = {Palaeoentomology}, volume = {3}, year = {2020}, month = {26/02/2020}, pages = {103{\textendash}118}, abstract = {

This is a supplement to Ross (2019) covering all taxa described or recorded in Burmese amber during 2019, plus a few earlier records that were missed previously. Up to the end of 2019, 1,478 species were recorded from Burmese (Kachin) amber of which 276 were named or recorded in 2019.

}, keywords = {Arachnids, Burmese amber, Cretaceous, fungi, insects, invertebrates, Myanmar, plants, protists, vertebrates}, issn = {2624-2826}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.1.14}, url = {https://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.3.1.14}, author = {Ross, Andrew J.} } @article {1389, title = {Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography 2018}, journal = {Palaeoentomology}, volume = {2}, year = {2019}, month = {28/02/2019}, pages = {22{\textendash}84}, abstract = {

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. The history of the study of inclusions is summarised, and demonstrates that the number of species has risen exponentially over the past two decades. The first three species were named in 1916 and by the end of 1920 a total of 42 species had been named by T.D.A. Cockerell. Only three more species were named by 1999 though by the end of 2018 the total had risen to an incredible 1,192 species, of which over half were named in the past three years. Some 320 species were named in 2018, the highest number described from one type of amber in any one year in the entire history of amber studies.

}, keywords = {Arachnids, Burmese amber, Cretaceous, fungi, insects, invertebrates, Myanmar, plants, protists, vertebrates}, issn = {2624-2826}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.1.5}, url = {https://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.2.1.5}, author = {Ross, Andrew J.} } @article {439, title = {The first known fossils of the Platydesmida{\textemdash}an extant American genus in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Diplopoda: Platydesmida: Andrognathidae)}, journal = {Organisms Diversity and Evolution}, volume = {19}, year = {2019}, month = {01/09/2019}, pages = {423-433}, abstract = {

Millipedes have been inhabiting the earth for more than 400 my and show a great diversity regarding their morphology and ecology. For a better understanding of the timing and pattern of millipede evolution, Burmese amber offers a unique window into the Cretaceous period, ca. 99 Ma. Here, we describe the first known fossil of the colobognathan order Platydesmida, the species Andrognathus burmiticus n. sp. based on 15 specimens from Cretaceous Burmese amber. We combine classical light-microscopy and modern micro-computer tomography (\μCT) with computer aided 3D-reconstructions. These non-invasive techniques allow us to describe the fossil millipedes as detailed as is general practice for extant species, and to grant the scientific community open access to the deposited \“Cybertypes\”. Based on the combination of unique morphological characters such as surface structures, body type, the unique size and shape of tergite 5, the absence of a hypoproct at the anal segment, and detailed gonopod characteristics, the studied fossils can be placed in the family Andrognathidae and the extant genus Andrognathus, which nowadays is restricted to the eastern USA and Mexico with three extant species. Therefore, the minimum age of the genus Andrognathus is pushed to the Cenomanian, 99 Ma. It can be assumed that the genus was much more diverse and wider distributed in the past and migrated between Asia and America via one of the once existing land bridges. These unique fossils prove the unusual relictual distribution of Andrognathus and can serve as key-fossils for the dating of the diplopod phylogeny.

}, keywords = {Burmese amber, Migration, Southeast Asia, Virtual paleontology, μCT}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-019-00408-0 }, author = {Moritz, Leif and Wesener, Thomas} } @article {437, title = {Symphylella patrickmuelleri sp. nov. (Myriapoda: Symphyla): The oldest known Symphyla and first fossil record of Scolopendrellidae from Cretaceous Burmese amber}, journal = {Creatceous Research}, volume = {84}, year = {2017}, month = {22/12/2017}, pages = {258-263}, abstract = {

Symphyla are one of the least known of the four classes of the Myriapoda. While Symphyla are dated to have split from the other myriapods at about 430\–593 Ma, there are no fossil specimens known aside from seven specimens of the family Scutigerellidae preserved in Dominican and Baltic amber, with a maximum age of ca. 54 Ma. Here we describe the first fossil representative of the second Symphyla family, the Scolopendrellidae, Symphylella patrickmuelleri sp. nov., from Burmese amber (ca. 99 Ma). Utilizing micro-computed tomography (mCT) technology, as well as light microscopy and multi-layer photography, our specimen, despite being juvenile, can be assigned to the genus Symphylella Silvestri, 1902, a species-rich Recent genus that has an almost worldwide distribution. The specimen is preserved after ejecting long threads of silk from its large spinnerets. Our findings show that the recent genera and families of the Symphyla diverged already before the end of the Mesozoic

}, keywords = {Burmese amber, Cretaceous, CT scan, Mesozoic, soil arthropod}, issn = {0195-6671}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2017.11.018}, author = {Moritz, Leif and Wesener, Thomas} } @article {111, title = {One hundred million years of stasis: Siphonophora hui sp. nov., the first Mesozoic sucking millipede (Diplopoda: Siphonophorida) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber}, journal = {Cretaceous Research}, volume = {97}, year = {2019}, month = {17/01/2019}, pages = {34 - 39}, type = {Short communication}, abstract = {

Fossil records of the ancient and less studied millipede order Siphonophorida are rare and only known from Oligocene-Miocene Dominican amber to date. Here, we describe a Mesozoic species of this order, Siphonophora hui sp. nov., based on two well-preserved specimens from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The new species can be placed in the family Siphonophoridae by having mouthparts strongly modified into a long beak, straight antennae, the separation of tergites, pleurites and sternites, leg-like gonopods derived from 9th and 10th leg pairs, and absence of ommatidia. This discovery pushes back the fossil record of Siphonophorida by more than 60 Ma. It also demonstrates that the details of the siphonophorid body plan have remained virtually unchanged for nearly 100 million years. An enigmatic structure on the antennae of the paratype may represent either the ancestral form of the circular sensory pits, or more unlikely, the earliest occurrence of a fungus parasitic or commensal on an arthropod.

}, keywords = {Burmese amber, fossil, Mesozoic, millipede, Palaeodiversity, Siphonophorida}, issn = {0195-6671}, doi = {10.1016/j.cretres.2019.01.011}, url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0195667118304087}, author = {Jiang, Xuan-Kong and Shear, William A. and Hennen, Derek A. and Chen, Huiming and Xie, Zhicai} }