Burmomyrma
Burmomyrma is an extinct genus of aculeate hymenopteran, suggested to be an ant. The genus contains a single described species, Burmomyrma rossi. Burmomyrma is known from a single Middle Cretaceous fossil which was found in Asia. History and classification Burmomyrma is known from a solitary adult fossil, the holotype, specimen number BMNH 19125. While the type specimen was collected in the early 1900s and deposited in the Natural History Museum in London, description of the specimen did not occur until nearly 80 years later. The holotype specimen is composed of a mostly complete adult female which has been preserved as an inclusion in transparent chunks of deep yellow and relatively clear Burmese amber. The amber specimen was recovered from deposits in Kachin State of Myanmar. Burmese amber has been radiometrically dated using U-Pb isotopes, yielding an age of approximately 99 million years old, close to the Aptian – Cenomanian boundary. The fossil was first studied by Russian paleoentomologist Gennady M. Dlussky of the Moscow State University. Dlussky's 1996 type description of the new genus and species was published in the Paleontological Journal. The genus name Burmomyrma is a combination of Burma, where the fossil was found, and the Greek myrmica