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 …

[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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages

P Barden - Myrmecological News, 2017 - antwiki.org
The ant fossil record is summarized with special reference to the earliest ants, first
occurrences of modern lineages, and the utility of paleontological data in reconstructing …

[PDF][PDF] An annotated catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Holometabola) of the world

JC Sohn, CC Labandeira, DR Davis, C Mitter - Zootaxa, 2012 - repository.si.edu
In this catalog, we attempt to assemble all fossil records of Lepidoptera described formally or
informally in the world literature. A total of 667 records dealing with at least 4,568 specimens …