New data on thysanurans preserved in Burmese amber (Microcoryphia and Zygentoma lnsecta)

Authors

  • Luis F. Mendes Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT)
  • Jörg Wunderlich

Keywords:

New taxon, Fossil, Burmite, Cretaceous, Myanmar

Abstract

One undeterminable Microcoryphia specimen preserved in burmite, almost certainly belonging to the genus em>Macropsontus, is reported. One new Lepismatidae (Zygentoma), Cretolepisma kachinicum gen. n. sp. n., preserved in the same ca. 100 MY old Albian-Cenomanian amber from Myanmar, is described based upon one female. It is compared with the recent genera in the nominate subfamily as well as with Burmalepisma cretacicum Mendes & Poinar, 2008, the only other species of Zygentoma known to date from the same deposits. Some paleogeographical and phylogenetic data are discussed and one new combination is proposed.

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Published

2024-02-05

Issue

Vol. 85 No. 1 (2013)

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ARTICLES

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Mendes, L. F., & Wunderlich, J. (2024). New data on thysanurans preserved in Burmese amber (Microcoryphia and Zygentoma lnsecta). Soil Organisms, 85(1), 11–22. https://soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/article/view/381