Burmaleon
Burmaleon Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Neuroptera |
Family: | Osmylidae |
Genus: | †Burmaleon |
Species: | †B. magnificus
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Binomial name | |
†Burmaleon magnificus Myskowiak et al, 2016
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Burmaleon is an
History and classification
When first described, R. cratoensis was known from a pair of fossil adults, the holotype number "HUANG-BP-B-4220" and paratype number "HUANG-NIGP163028". At the time of the insects' description, the two specimens were residing in the Chinese Academy of Sciences's Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, in Nanjing. Both the winged adults are preserved as inclusions in transparent chunks of yellow Burmese amber shaped and polished before study.[1] The amber specimen was recovered from the amber deposits of Hukawng Valley, Kachin State in Myanmar. The specific origin location for the fossils is unidentified since the amber pieces were obtained from traders after mining.[1] Burmese amber has been radiometrically dated using U-Pb isotopes, yielding an age of approximately 98.79 ± 0.62 million years old, close to the Aptian – Cenomanian boundary, in the earliest Cenomanian.[2][3]
The fossils were described in a 2016 paper by an international team of paleontologists led by Justine Myskowiak. The genus name is a combination of Burma, referring to the type location in Burmese amber, and leon, a common suffix name for myrmeleontoid insects. They coined the specific epithet magnificus in reference to the great detail of preservation seen in the fossils.[1]
Description
The species have a full body length ranging between approximately 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in), and both are mostly complete. On the
References
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External links
- Data related to Burmaleon at Wikispecies