NEW MATERIAL OF TERRESTRIAL GASTROPODS FROM MID-CRETACEOUS BURMESE AMBER

Gastropod fossils are abundant, but they are rarely preserved in amber. Two genera and two species of terrestrial gastropods Euthema naggsi Yu, Wang and Pan, 2018, Truncatellina dilatatus sp. nov. are described from mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. Our findings offer more complete records of palaeontological diversity of terrestrial gastropods preserved in Burmese amber. The ecological context of amber gastropods further confirms the warm and humid tropical rain forest en-vironment of the amber forest in the mid-Cretaceous.

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