Amber Burmite

Exceptional piece of amber measuring ± 2.3 x 1.5 cm and weighing 1.3 grams. It contains 1 worm that can be seen with the naked eye.

This amber is of great paleontological interest due to the diversity of flora and fauna it contains, in particular arthropods, including insects and arachnids, but also birds, lizards, snakes, frogs and fragmentary remains of dinosaurs.

Cretaceous, 99 million years

Hukawng Valley, Myanmar, Burma