What is Burmese amber?
[[File:Burmomyrma rossi BMNHP19125 02.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Holotype specimen of ''Burmomyrma rossi'', showing typical dark-red colouration and opacity]] '''Burmese amber''', or '''Burmite''' or '''Kachin amber''', is [[amber]] from the [[Hukawng Valley]] in northern [[Myanmar]]. It is important for its fossils from the earliest part of the [[Upper Cretaceous]], in the [[Cenomanian]] age, 99 million years ago. The [[amber]] has been commercially exploited since the first century [[AD]]. Research on the deposit may fund [[internal conflict in Myanmar]]. The amber has [[flora]] and [[fauna]] especially [[arthropods]] such as [[insects]] and [[arachnids]]. There are also also [[birds]], [[lizards]], [[snakes]], [[frogs]] and fragments of [[dinosaur]] remains. The fossils [[arachnids]] in the amber include: *44 [[family (biology)|families]] of [[spiders]]. *20 families of [[mites]]. *5 families of [[Opiliones]] (mites, [[harvestmen]], daddy longlegs) *12 families of [[pseudoscorpion]]s *7 families of [[scorpion]]s *5 families of [[ticks]] *1 [[genus]] of short-tailed whipscorpion (Schizomida) *1 genus of [[Palpigradi]] *1 genus of [[Amblypygi]] *1 genus of [[camel spider]] *2 genera of [[whip scprpions]] *3 genera of hooded tickspiders 15 families of [[myriapod]]s are in the amber 8 families of [[Entognatha]] are known 29 orders of insects are known, including: *50+ families of [[Hymenoptera]] *47 families of flies ([[Diptera]]) *89 families of beetles ([[Coleoptera]]) *21 families of [[Neuroptera]] (such as [[lacewing]]s, [[antlion]]s, etc) *65 families of [[Hemiptera]] ([[true bug]]s) *20 families of [[Dictyoptera]] And 16 more smaller families. Other groups of [[invertebrates]] include: *[[Nematodes]] *[[Nematomorpha]] *[[Molluscs]] There are some [[vertebrates]]: [[File:Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (2016) fig. 1.png|thumb|right|upright|CT scan of mummified bird wing in amber]] *A well preserved [[theropod]] dinosaur tail, with preserved feathers.<ref>{{Cite journal|