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 …

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 review and phylogeny of Scarabaeine dung beetle fossils (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with the description of two Canthochilum species from …

S Tarasov, FZ Vaz-de-Mello, FT Krell, D Dimitrov - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
Despite the increasing rate of systematic research on scarabaeine dung beetles
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), their fossil record has remained largely …

[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 …

The phylogeny and evolution of the flashiest of the armored harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones)

LR Benavides, R Pinto-da-Rocha, G Giribet - Systematic biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Gonyleptoidea, largely restricted to the Neotropics, constitutes the most diverse superfamily
of Opiliones and includes the largest and flashiest representatives of this arachnid order …

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 first records of mollusks from mid-Cretaceous Hkamti amber (Myanmar), with the description of a land snail, Euthema myanmarica n. sp.(Caenogastropoda …

I Balashov - Journal of Paleontology, 2021 - cambridge.org
Five land snails and the borings of marine bivalves are reported from Hkamti (Khamti) amber
whose age was recently uranium-lead dated to be ca. 110 Ma, in contrast to the nearby …

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 …