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Amber Inclusions from Myanmar – Windows into an Ancient World
For nearly 100 million years, Kachin amber has preserved extraordinary traces of a vanished ecosystem.
Inclusion(s):
†Yuripopoviidae – Extinct True Bug (ausgestorbene Wanze)
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Collection Number:
KA75/CAB
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Inclusion Size:
Body length 3.6 mm; with antennae 5.6 mm.
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Amber Size:
36 x 13 x 6 mm
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Age:
Around 100 million years (Cretaceous period)
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Location:
Myanmar
Remarks:
An extremely rare representative of the extinct true bug family †Yuripopovinidae. Members of this family are characterized by distinctive antennae, often with enlarged terminal segments. The family is known only from the Cretaceous and has been very rarely recorded from Kachin amber.
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