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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):
Pseudoscorpiones – Pseudoscorpion, cricket, beetle (Pseudoskorpion, Grille, Käfer)
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Collection Number:
KA72/CAB
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Inclusion Size:
Pseudoscorpion: body length 3.4 mm; with chelae 5.9 mm.
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Amber Size:
36 x 32 x 8 mm
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Age:
Around 100 million years (Cretaceous period)
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Location:
Myanmar
Remarks:
This pseudoscorpion has an unusually elongated and slender body compared with the more compact body shape typical of many pseudoscorpions. A cricket and a beetle are preserved as associated inclusions in the same piece of amber.
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