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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):
†Deinocrotonidae Deinocroton – Extinct tick (ausgestorbene Zecke)
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Collection Number:
KA67/CAB
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Inclusion Size:
Body length 3.5 mm
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Amber Size:
16 x 10 x 2 mm
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Age:
Around 100 million years (Cretaceous period)
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Location:
Myanmar
Remarks:
Extinct family of ticks known only from Kachin amber. Fossil evidence suggests that these blood-feeding ectoparasites parasitized feathered dinosaurs and may have lived in or around their nests. It is fascinating to consider that a tick like this may have fed on a dinosaur before becoming trapped in resin.
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