Production and preservation of resins–past and present

LJ Seyfullah, C Beimforde, J Dal Corso… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Amber is fossilised plant resin. It can be used to provide insights into the terrestrial
conditions at the time the original resin was exuded. Amber research thus can inform many …

[HTML][HTML] Conservation, preparation and imaging of diverse ambers and their inclusions

EM Sadowski, AR Schmidt, LJ Seyfullah… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Amber, a natural polymer, is fossil tree resin derived from diverse botanical sources with
varying chemical compositions. As such, all amber is susceptible to the effects of light …

Extraordinary Lagerstätten in amber, with particular reference to the Cretaceous of Burma

DA Grimaldi, AJ Ross, NC Fraser… - … : Windows into the …, 2017 - books.google.com
Deposits of fossilized tree resins, or amber, occur throughout the world and range in age
from Carboniferous to Holocene, produced by myriads of vascular plants. Small organisms …

Amberground pholadid bivalve borings and inclusions in Burmese amber: implications for proximity of resin-producing forests to brackish waters, and the age of the …

RDA Smith, AJ Ross - … Science Transactions of the Royal Society of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Clavate (club-shaped) structures rimming mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber from Myanmar,
previously misdiagnosed as fungal sporocarps, are shown to be domichnia (crypts) of …

The aquatic and semiaquatic biota in Miocene amber from the Campo La Granja mine (Chiapas, Mexico): paleoenvironmental implications

M de Lourdes Serrano-Sánchez, TA Hegna… - Journal of South …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Amber from the Campo La Granja mine in Chiapas, Mexico, is distinct from other
sources of amber in Chiapas. Campo La Granja amber has distinct layers created by …

[PDF][PDF] Amber

CC Labandeira - Reading and Writing of the Fossil Record …, 2014 - repository.si.edu
The amber fossil record provides a distinctive, 320-million-year-old taphonomic mode
documenting gymnosperm, and later, angiosperm, resin-producing taxa. Resins and their …

Entrapment bias of arthropods in Miocene amber revealed by trapping experiments in a tropical forest in Chiapas, Mexico

MM Solórzano Kraemer, AS Kraemer, F Stebner… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
All entomological traps have a capturing bias, and amber, viewed as a trap, is no exception.
Thus the fauna trapped in amber does not represent the total existing fauna of the former …

Miocene Ethiopian amber: A new source of fossil cryptogams

V Bouju, K Feldberg, U Kaasalainen… - … of Systematics and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Amber is renowned for the exceptional preservation state of its inclusions, allowing detailed
morphological analysis and providing relevant environmental, palaeoecological …

The chemistry of American and African amber, copal, and resin from the genus Hymenaea

VE McCoy, A Boom, MMS Kraemer, SE Gabbott - Organic Geochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
The comparison of the chemical composition of fossilized amber, copal, and resin is
important for determining the botanic origin and original chemical composition of fossilized …

Checklist of fossil liverworts suitable for calibrating phylogenetic reconstructions

K Feldberg, SR Gradstein, C GRÖHN… - Bryophyte Diversity and …, 2021 - biotaxa.org
The number of available liverwort fossils substantially increased within the past decade,
which is mainly due to new findings from Cretaceous and Cenozoic amber deposits. Many of …