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 …

Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography 2018

AJ Ross - Palaeoentomology, 2019 - mapress.com
A list of all known taxa described or recorded from Burmese amber from the published
literature up to the end of 2018 is given, along with a comprehensive bibliography. 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 …

Dicranoptycha Osten Sacken, 1860 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from the earliest Cenomanian Burmese amber

I Kania, B Wang, J Szwedo - Cretaceous Research, 2015 - Elsevier
A new species of Dicranoptycha from Burmese amber (lowermost Cenomanian, Upper
Cretaceous) is described, Dicranoptycha burmitica sp. nov. The morphology comparison …

Timing and patterns in the taxonomic diversification of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)

N Wahlberg, CW Wheat, C Peña - PLOS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The macroevolutionary history of the megadiverse insect order Lepidoptera remains little-
known, yet coevolutionary dynamics with their angiospermous host plants are thought to …

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 …

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 …

New fossil insect order Permopsocida elucidates major radiation and evolution of suction feeding in hemimetabolous insects (Hexapoda: Acercaria)

DY Huang, G Bechly, P Nel, MS Engel, J Prokop… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract With nearly 100,000 species, the Acercaria (lice, plant lices, thrips, bugs) including
number of economically important species is one of the most successful insect lineages …

Zircon UPb age constraints on the mid-Cretaceous Hkamti amber biota in northern Myanmar

L Xing, L Qiu - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2020 - Elsevier
Hkamti amber contains exquisite fossils, but the age of the amber biota is unclear. In this
study, we documented the characteristics of fossils hosted in the amber, and we present …