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Found a nice hot spot for amber:)
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Hello, I bought an amber inclusion, there are 5 mosquitos(?) in it. I can't see the proboscis, so maybe they are not mosquitos? I think that they are all the same so heres a zoomed picture of the one. Is it possible to know more information than "it's a mosquito" or "it's a bug"? Thanks!!!
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Sorry for the bad pictures, I’m not sure what this amber would be called but it’s 100 million years old so what could these be? Snails? Seeds?
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Hi all, I'm wanting to buy a microscope, so I can look at my amber inclusions more closely. I've been reading that a Stereo Microscope is the best to use. Is there a minimum the microscope needs to go up to magnification wise? I was to get as close as possible without breaking the bank lol I'm eventually wanting to photograph my amber. What do you all use? Can anybody recommend any models? It needs to have a light so I can illuminate the amber.
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Real or Fake Pteranodon Preserved In Amber?
Mioplosus_Lover24 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Awhile ago there was the craze about having an alleged partial dinosaur tail preserved in amber, then there was the ammonite and crinoids preserved in amber, but recently I have been seeing reports about a complete pteranodon that was found preserved in amber and that was set to be auctioned off. Over the past few months I have not seen any more reports about it and was wondering if anyone knew if it was a hoax (I imagine it was), or if someone out there really does now own this one-of-a-kind specimen? -
Xixia Amber (Gaogou Formation, 100.5-85.8 Ma)
Barrelcactusaddict posted a gallery image in Members Gallery
From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
Amber Xixia Basin, Xixia County, Henan Province, China Gaogou Formation (100.5-85.8 Ma) Total Weight: 10.1 grams Overview: These pieces are all unwashed and still have an extremely fine layer of sediment; each has high clarity and rich color, many are naturally droplet-shaped, and individual measurements range from 1 to 8 millimeters in length. A few fragments of coal are also present within the lot. Prevalence, Inclusions, Botanical Source: Amber itself is quite common within the Xixia Basin, hosting China's largest amber reserves, but despite this© Kaegen Lau
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Xixia Amber (Gaogou Formation, 100.5-85.8 Ma)
Barrelcactusaddict posted a gallery image in Members Gallery
From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
Amber Xixia Basin, Xixia County, Henan Province, China Gaogou Formation (100.5-85.8 Ma) Total Weight: 10.1 grams Overview: These pieces are all unwashed and still have an extremely fine layer of sediment; each has high clarity and rich color, many are naturally droplet-shaped, and individual measurements range from 1 to 8 millimeters in length. A few fragments of coal are also present within the lot. Prevalence, Inclusions, Botanical Source: Amber itself is quite common within the Xixia Basin, hosting China's largest amber reserves, but despite this© Kaegen Lau
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Xixia Amber (Gaogou Formation, 100.5-85.8 Ma)
Barrelcactusaddict posted a gallery image in Members Gallery
From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
Amber Xixia Basin, Xixia County, Henan Province, China Gaogou Formation (100.5-85.8 Ma) Here's a close-up view taken with the aid of a BelOMO 10x loupe. Prevalence, Inclusions, Botanical Source: Amber itself is quite common within the Xixia Basin, hosting China's largest amber reserves, but despite this is very rarely seen on the market. It has also been studied very little, mostly due to the fact that biological inclusions have not been known to occur in it. An araucarian source for this amber was determined based on chemical analysis. Geological Sett© Kaegen Lau
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Xixia Amber (Gaogou Formation, 100.5-85.8 Ma)
Barrelcactusaddict posted a gallery image in Members Gallery
From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
Amber Xixia Basin, Xixia County, Henan Province, China Gaogou Formation (100.5-85.8 Ma) Total Weight: 10.1 grams Overview: This image shows its fluorescence under 365nm longwave UV light. These pieces are all unwashed and still have an extremely fine layer of sediment; each has high clarity and rich color, many are naturally droplet-shaped, and individual measurements range from 1 to 8 millimeters in length. A few fragments of coal are also present within the lot. Prevalence, Inclusions, Botanical Source: Amber itself is quite common within the Xixia© Kaegen Lau
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Xixia Amber (Gaogou Formation, 100.5-85.8 Ma)
Barrelcactusaddict posted a gallery image in Members Gallery
From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
Amber Xixia Basin, Xixia County, Henan Province, China Gaogou Formation (100.5-85.8 Ma) Several droplet-shaped pieces, selected from the 10.1 gram lot. Prevalence, Inclusions, Botanical Source: Amber itself is quite common within the Xixia Basin, hosting China's largest amber reserves, but despite this is very rarely seen on the market. It has also been studied very little, mostly due to the fact that biological inclusions have not been known to occur in it. An araucarian source for this amber was determined based on chemical analysis. Geological Setti© Kaegen Lau
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Xixia Amber (Gaogou Formation, 100.5-85.8 Ma)
Barrelcactusaddict posted a gallery image in Members Gallery
From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
Amber Xixia Basin, Xixia County, Henan Province, China Gaogou Formation (100.5-85.8 Ma) Total Weight: 10.1 grams Overview: These pieces are all unwashed and still have an extremely fine layer of sediment; each has high clarity and rich color, many are naturally droplet-shaped, and individual measurements range from 1 to 8 millimeters in length. A few fragments of coal are also present within the lot. Prevalence, Inclusions, Botanical Source: Amber itself is quite common within the Xixia Basin, hosting China's largest amber reserves, but despite this© Kaegen Lau
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This is my fossil collection. the first image Please understand that the number is small. 2nd image theropod claw morocco 3rd image spinosaurus claw! morocco （The top is fake. The bottom is real.） 4th image the bones of an animal's finger 5th image raptor bone 6th image mammoth body hair 7th image mantis amber! 8th image Scarabaeoidea amber
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Hi, I am on the hunt for fake or synthetic amber with inclusions, and only fake or synthetic. The symposium that my society is hosting is having a silent auction and I would love to find someone to approach to make a donation request for a piece of fake amber with an inclusion. I have tried Google but all the results are for how to avoid fake amber, which is the opposite of what I am trying to do.
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Amber with fluorensce & pine smell, but not floating
GEORGE-GR-68 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi members, glad to be here, I have a collection of fossils that mainly I want to ID and see also if they are real. My topic now is for amber beads but not sure if they are real or fake. I tried the following: UV light: Fluoresce green (light green) Hot needle test; It smells sweet pine ( after few seconds, not immediately). No definitely not plastic, in Greece there are pines I know the smell. Needle does not penetrate easily the beads. BUT I tried seawater, does not float, I tried also a lot of cooking salt (with iodine) and tap drinkin -
I frequently purchase a large amount of amber from someone I know in Burma. Most of these pieces I only have some idea of what's in them until I get them in hand and am able to look at them myself under my microscope. I recently received another large shipment and it included this piece in it. As soon as I started looking at the inclusion I knew I had to make a post here for more opinions on the piece before I get my hopes up to much. However to me this 100 percent looks like a parasitic fungus that infected a Diptera. I'm not an expert by any means, but I've always had an interest in mycology
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The largest amber-preserved flower revisited (scientific reports) Franz Bernhard
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I recently obtained this piece of amber, which was described as being from Myanmar, and therefore of cretaceous age. I got it very cheaply, I'd say (from a well known auction site), and this led another collector to rather rudely assert that it was fake. I have no reason to assume that it is fake, but at the same time, I'm having trouble proving that it's authentic. When I poke it with a hot needle, the needle makes an impression but doesn't slice straight through it. Dark grey smoke rose from it, which didn't smell of plastic. When I rub it vigorously with a soft clot
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Hey all, here's the latest 99-myo addition to my amber collection. Not sure I've seen too many other scorpions as large or well-posed as this beefy fellow; he's a little over an inch long not including the pincers/arms. It's a thin piece so the often foggy clarity of Burmese amber is luckily avoided here with little oxidation.
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There are cross hatch patterns in the wood making it almost look woven. The rock imbedded in it or attached to it looks like amber. its bright yellow and dark when no light is behind it. The amber or agate looks like it has some of the same fiber pattern around the edges.
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I was working on sorting through large group of amber I recently acquired, and this one struck me as interesting. I think I have seen this insect before, but having a hard time placing it. Raptorial legs, and an interesting snout/mouth piece. Any ideas?
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Is this genuine praying mantis amber?
Ginger0412 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Is this genuine praying mantis amber? The photo is hard to see, but please forgive me. Praying mantis in a barmite egg If anyone knows, please let me know. Thank you so much to everyone on the forums. -
Is this stag beetle amber? barmite Myanmar product If anyone knows, please let me know. Thank you so much to everyone on the forums. Thank you.
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Borneo Amber (Upper Nyalau Fm., 20.44-15.97 Ma)
Barrelcactusaddict posted a gallery image in Members Gallery
From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
Borneo Amber Merit Block Coal Deposits Kapit Division, Sarawak State, Malaysia Upper Nyalau Formation 20.44-15.97 Ma Weight: 351.5 grams Dimensions: 123 x 86 x 45 millimeters The specimen arrived freshly cut from what was a larger, football-sized specimen; with a minor amount of shaping/sanding, I then polished it as best I could. This material is very soft, so a glassy polish similar to that of harder ambers isn't possible. Borneo amber is essentially coeval in age with Sumatra amber, or at least its Formations (upper Gumai, Air Ben© Kaegen Lau
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Borneo Amber (Upper Nyalau Fm., 20.44-15.97 Ma)
Barrelcactusaddict posted a gallery image in Members Gallery
From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
Borneo Amber Merit Block Coal Deposits Kapit Division, Sarawak State, Malaysia Upper Nyalau Formation 20.44-15.97 Ma Weight: 351.5 grams Dimensions: 123 x 86 x 45 millimeters *Fluorescence under 365nm UV light The specimen arrived freshly cut from what was a larger, football-sized specimen; with a minor amount of shaping/sanding, I then polished it as best I could. This material is very soft, so a glassy polish similar to that of harder ambers isn't possible. Borneo amber is essentially coeval in age with Sumatra amber, o© Kaegen Lau
