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Ditrichites is an extinct genus of ditrichalean moss described from compression and amber fossils. The genus was first named in 1974 from the compression species Ditrichites fylesi found in the Early Eocene Allenby Formation of British Columbia, Canada. Both additional species have been described from inclusions in amber. The second species, and first amber species, Ditrichites ignotus was named from Late Eocene Baltic amber in northern Europe in 2015. The third named and oldest species, Ditrichites aristatus was identified in 2025 based on mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber out of Myanmar. Given the preserved material, at least one species was suggested to be a terrestrial, ground dwelling, moss.
The oldest occurrence of Ditrichites is from the Kachin amber deposits in Kachin state northern Myanmar. The specimens were recovered from a series of mines 20 km (12 mi) southwest of the village Tanai in the Hukuang Valley. Considered the largest deposit of Cretaceous amber known, the amber has been dated to the late Albian–early Cenomanian boundary 100–99 Mya.
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