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] Amber and the Cretaceous resinous interval

X Delclòs, E Peñalver, E Barrón, D Peris… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Amber is fossilized resin that preserves biological remains in exceptional detail, study of
which has revolutionized understanding of past terrestrial organisms and habitats from the …

Age constraint on Burmese amber based on U–Pb dating of zircons

G Shi, DA Grimaldi, GE Harlow, J Wang, J Wang… - Cretaceous …, 2012 - Elsevier
Amber from northern Myanmar has been commercially exploited for millennia, and it also
preserves the most diverse palaeobiota among the worlds' seven major deposits of …

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 …

Fossil calibrations for the arthropod Tree of Life

JM Wolfe, AC Daley, DA Legg, GD Edgecombe - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Fossil age data and molecular sequences are increasingly combined to establish a
timescale for the Tree of Life. Arthropods, as the most species-rich and morphologically …

Sequence and scale of changes in the terrestrial biota during the Cretaceous (based on materials from fossil resins)

AP Rasnitsyn, AS Bashkuev, DS Kopylov… - Cretaceous …, 2016 - Elsevier
Сomparative analysis of arthropod assemblages found in Cretaceous fossil resins is
provided. Arthropod-bearing Cretaceous resin sites are reviewed, and a list of arthropod …

Dinosaur bonebed amber from an original swamp forest soil

S Álvarez-Parra, R Pérez-de La Fuente, E Peñalver… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Dinosaur bonebeds with amber content, yet scarce, offer a superior wealth and quality of
data on ancient terrestrial ecosystems. However, the preserved palaeodiversity and/or …

The history of insect parasitism and the Mid-Mesozoic Parasitoid Revolution

CC Labandeira, L Li - The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism …, 2021 - Springer
Insect parasites and parasitoids are a major component of terrestrial food webs. For
parasitoids, categorization is whether feeding activity is located inside or outside its host, if …

A revised definition for copal and its significance for palaeontological and Anthropocene biodiversity-loss studies

MM Solórzano-Kraemer, X Delclòs, MS Engel… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The early fossilization steps of natural resins and associated terminology are a subject of
constant debate. Copal and resin are archives of palaeontological and historical information …

Palynology of Aptian and upper Albian (Lower Cretaceous) amber-bearing outcrops of the southern margin of the Basque-Cantabrian basin (northern Spain)

E Barrón, D Peyrot, JP Rodríguez-López… - Cretaceous …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Lower Cretaceous deposits of the southern margin of the Basque-Cantabrian
basin (northern Spain) are characterised by continental deposits interbedded with amber …