Nature Communications (Aug 2018)
A Late Cretaceous amber biota from central Myanmar
- 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
Affiliations
- Daran Zheng
- State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Su-Chin Chang
- Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
- Vincent Perrichot
- University of Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes - UMR 6118
- Suryendu Dutta
- Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- Arka Rudra
- Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- Lin Mu
- State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Richard S. Kelly
- State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Sha Li
- State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Qi Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Qingqing Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jean Wong
- Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
- Jun Wang
- Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
- He Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yan Fang
- State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Haichun Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Bo Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05650-2
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 6
Abstract
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 preserving a diverse insect assemblage.
