With the exception of a fly and a mite from the Triassic of Italy, all Mesozoic amber arthropods are from the Cretaceous. Late Jurassic Lebanese amber from Aintourine revealed a completely preserved adult coccid male (wing length 0.8 mm), Jankotejacoccus libanogloria gen. et sp. n., the earliest record of a plant sucking scale insect. Associated plant material included the cheirolepidiaceans Protopodocarpoxylon, Brachyphyllum and Classostrobus, plus Classopolis pollen, suggesting a forested temporary swamp habitat with ferns, tree ferns, water ferns, tall araucarian and ginkgoacean trees and shrubs. (Sub)tropic lateritic soil with vegetation debris underwent incomplete microbial decomposition in an anoxic water environment of peat swamp development. Strata-associated marine organisms support the Kimmeridgian age revealed by zircons. The discovery opens a new field of research in Jurassic amber fossils.

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Earth Science Institute v v i Slovak Academy of Sciences; Dúbravská cesta 9 840 05 Bratislava and Ďumbierska 1 97401 Banská Bystrica Slovakia

Institute of Geology and Palaeontology Faculty of Science Charles University; Albertov 6 12843 Prague 2 Czech Republic

Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences 18209 Praha 8 Czech Republic

Institute of Zoology v v i Slovak Academy of Sciences; Dúbravska cesta 9 84506 Bratislava Slovakia

Integrative Insect Ecology Research Unit Department of Biology Faculty of Science Chulalongkorn University Pathumwan BKK 10330 Thailand

Lebanese University Faculty of Sciences 2 Department of Natural Sciences Jdeideh Matn Lebanon

MGPalaeo Pty Ltd Malaga WA 6090 Australia

School of Biological Science; The University of Western Australia Crawley WA 6009 Australia

Slovak Academy of Sciences Institute of Inorganic Chemistry v v i ; Dúbravská cesta 9 Bratislava 84536 Slovakia

Slovak Academy of Sciences Institute of Physics v v i Research Center of Quantum Informatics; Dúbravská cesta 9 Bratislava 84511 Slovakia

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Petroleum Stratigraphy Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing 210008 China

University of Gdańsk Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology Laboratory of Evolutionary Entomology and Museum of Amber Inclusions; Museum of Amber Inclusions; PL 80308 Gdansk Poland

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