Ancient Burmese fossil Amber with Millipede insect. 17.6mm. ...

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Ancient Burmese fossil Amber with Millipede insect. 17.6mm. Also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar, it is dated to around 100 million years old, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The amber is of significant palaeontological interest due to the diversity of flora and fauna contained as inclusions, particularly arthropods including insects and arachnids but also birds, lizards, snakes, frogs and fragmentary dinosaur remains. The amber has been known and commercially exploited since the first century AD, and has been known to science since the mid-nineteenth century.

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