Tick And Snow Fleas in Burmese Amber

Age: 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period

Found: Hukawng Valley, northern Myanmar

Species:  a tick and dozens of snow fleas

Size: 0.9" long

Pictures may make item look bigger. Macro photography was used.

Burmese Amber is of significant palaeontologist interest due to the diversity of flora and fauna contained as inclusions, particularly arthropods including insects and arachnids but also birds, lizards, snakes, frogs and fragmentary dinosaur remains.

Disclaimer: I am not a paleoentomologist, and each species given to the bugs in amber may not be correct.