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Young Thuja Cone Inclusion From Baltic Amber ( Eocene Era )
vermiculosis posted a topic in Micro-paleontology
Dear Friends, This time i'd like to show amazing Thuja Cone Inclusion from Baltic Amber. Cupressaceae Family Amazing Preservation after more than 40 million years. Amber weight - 2.8 gram Amber size - 3.3 cm / 3 cm / 0.5 cm Inclusion ~ 0.35 cm More soon Cheers, Artur
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Hi I bought a cockroach in burmite. The second time I bought and the second time I got free The first time flies. And now a big piece of archeognatha, 1 or 2 fly and ... pliers pseudoscorpion. It's a pseudoscorpion or scorpion pliers? I'm sorry for the quality but the spec is very tiny and I have a weak camera.
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Anyone able to help with ID on an interesting lepidopteran in Mexican amber from Chiapas (ca. 18-25 Ma)? Any/all thoughts much appreciated. It looked like a nymphalid (perhaps Eurema?) from merchant photos. However after getting the amber and holding it, I'm totally thrown off! There's no record of butterflies from continental Neotropical amber---and preservation is exceptional. Associated with the lep are the flowers, foliage, pollen and seeds of Hymenaea and at least 2 other legumes. Perhaps there's even an orchid hidden in there. (The max file limit's too small to include these hi-res photos...) Amber matrix: ca. 7 x 4 x 2 cm (oblong) Wingspan ca. 3.5 cm Length of wing at longest point ca. 2 cm (crude estimate) 'Unfortunately' (for ID) the amber heavily fluoresces a lovely blue/green: the foliage, pollen, flowers obscure the specimen's body on the (presumably) dorsal side. It's further complicated by refraction on what would be the ventral side. What looks like a dark antenna in the pics is actually just the a side-view of one of the flowering legume's pinnae. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a geometer moth, but what a remarkable fossil if it proves to be a skipper or true butterfly (nymphalid? lycaenid/riodinid?). Thanks all.
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Hello I was liking some direction on this item, I dont believe it to be bone material and its not stone , its light and is not cool to the feel. I was wondering if this could be a fossil of some sort. it is translucent in some areas and is quite unique, Thanks for any help.
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I'm here to learn, explore more of the science that fuels my passion and my art, amongst friendly souls. Came to this world by blood; my dad was a geologist and outdoorsman till his passing; he remains my hero, everything I know and all my interest is born of his legacy. In my work I try to find good, reliable sources for information and materials and trustworthy individuals in their respective fields. I've read the rules of the community, I'm not here to promote, buy or sell. Just to learn. I MAY talk about what I do because it's my passion, but I'm a pretty low on the totem pole in knowledge, still, so I'm more likely to be willing to ask the goofy question, than grandstand. :-) Appreciate this forum for what it is and will treat it with respect. Lauryn
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Found this interesting piece while rock hounding my favorite spot in Nova Scotia. I thought it was the back half of a small fish at first but then I noticed it appears to have a leg coming off one side and the tail seems to be pointed. Any ideas what I have here? Could it be a tetrapod? I have other pics but I could only attach 1. The rock is about 1 inch long and 3/4 of an inch wide.
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Greetings. I found this interesting specimen in eastern Pennsylvania near Neshaminy/Delaware rivers. Has two concavities that almost look like the rock was "pinched" This initially caught my eye thinking it might be a native American grinding stone. On second look, however, I doubt it. It's a waxy resinous mineral of some type and the interior is red/bronze/orange and translucent. Doing my newbie searches leaves me guessing --- could this be a type of amber? Or sphalerite? Or am I way off here? Thank you in advance to all of the great forum posters here. Dimensions: 7x5x5 cm Weight: 167 grams
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Hello, A fellow collector showed this to me, but I have no idea what it is. It feels somewhat wood-like in terms of weight and texture. There is no information on the origin as well. Any input will be appreciated! Thanks, Jay
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Recently, I prepared ambers from Indonesia and I found something looks like a mammal hair. I want to sure what is this. Thanks to your help Other picture 1 Other picture 2
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Wow! http://a-dinosaur-a-day.com/post/161549500085/a-baby-in-amber
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I am a Newbie and have been lurking for a while trying to get info on different fossilized teeth I was given by a family member. I am very impressed with the friendly and helpful reception given newbies on this site so I signed up. I am an entomologist by trade and have interest in amber with insect inclusions. That interest somehow pulled me into Green River fish and now friends and relatives are giving me fossils from their travels. I am overwhelmed by some of the items including a 5 lb box of teeth from Morocco a relative brought back in the 70’s. I look forward to following the forum and hope I will be able to contribute in some way eventually. Bryan
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New Species of Fossil Orchid From Baltic Amber (Succinanthera baltica)
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Researchers identify evidence of oldest orchid fossil on record Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, May 3, 2017 http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2017/may/researchers-identify-evidence-oldest-orchid-fossil-record https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170504093216.htm Poinar, G. and Rasmussen, F.N., 2017. Orchids from the past, with a new species in Baltic amber. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 183(3), pp.327-333. DOI: 10.1093/botlinnean/bow018 https://academic.oup.com/botlinnean/article-abstract/183/3/327/3092413/Orchids-from-the-past-with-a-new-species-in-Baltic Yours, Paul H. -
Spent a few hours tonight mucking around trying to get some nice macro shots of some insects in Baltic amber. Here are the results. Field of view is approximately 7mm, but some of these have been cropped considerably.
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I just got an ant, or Hymenoptera Formicidae today in Amber from Myanmar, or Burmite. I had to take pictures of this ant inclusion right away. There is only one deposit of Amber in Myanmar, and it is dated to 99 millio years ago, in the cretaceous, so the date is confirmed. And it glows blue under UV-light. So nice! Although this image is not as good as my others, remember the age difference between Baltic Amber and Burmite. Inclusions in Burmite are almost always more damaged. But this one is like a crime scene. There are claw marks around the ant, and a piece of grass or something (well, it can't be grass, as grass is only 66 mill years old!) next to it. No other plant materials like this in the 1.3g lump of amber. I only payed $60 for it, but I'm going back to my Baltic stuff. Burmite inclusions are just too expensive. A friend of mine just bought a Burmite piece with a feather inside for $1000! Here is the image of my Formicidae, if everything works out right.
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Could anyone recommend a reputable supplier of Cretaceous amber? thanks!
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http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-monkey-blood-found-fossilized-in-amber/ For the first time, fossilized mammal blood, probably from a 20 to 30 million-year-old monkey, has been found in amber. Ok, it's not quite Jurassic Park, but OligocenePark would probably be safer. In the meantime, we're learning about the evolution of parasites, and maybe something about primate development as well. Emeritus Professor George Poinar, who proposed the idea of resurrecting extinct creatures from DNA in amber, has produced some astonishing discoveries lately, including insects trapped in amber that look nothing like those we see today. This find, however, is a fairly ordinary Ambylomma tick from a tropical rainforest in the Dominican Republic. The significance lies in the fact that shortly before it died the tick had been feeding and so was engorged with blood. It had two holes on its back, through which this blood was escaping when it became sealed in tree sap, which subsequently turned to amber. “These two tiny holes indicate that something picked a tick off the mammal it was feeding on, puncturing it in the process and dropping it immediately into tree sap,” Poinar said in a statement. The discovery has been announced in the Journal of Medical Entomology, where Poinar notes that, besides preserving the monkey blood in extraordinary detail, the amber also captured parasites of the order Piroplasmida, probably from the Babesiidae family. One member of this family, B microti, causes the malaria-like disease babesiosis in humans, while Texas cattle fever is caused by a related species. “Fortunately, the parasites were different enough in texture and density from the erythrocytes that the sugars, terpines, and other components in the resin made them as conspicuous as if they had been stained,” the paper notes, with the parasites looking darker than the rest of the blood. The parasites are found in both the gut cells and body cavity of the tick, confirming that, then as now, this is how they were transmitted. “The life forms we find in amber can reveal so much about the history and evolution of diseases we still struggle with today,” Poinar said. “This parasite, for instance, was clearly around millions of years before humans, and appears to have evolved alongside primates, among other hosts.” Amblyomma ticks are common in Dominican amber and are known to feed on mammals. The DNA of the mammalian host has not been extracted for definitive identification, but the size of the red blood cells match those of canines or primates. The location is consistent with a tree-dwelling monkey, and the tick's holes look like they were have formed by the fingers of another monkey doing some helpful grooming. Fossilized 20 to 30-million-year-old red blood cells, some of them infected by parasites. Oregon State University
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I bought this a few years back and I was wondering if it was amber, copal or plastic. It was labeled as Baltic Amber and it has a spider inclusion in it. Are there any tests I can do to it that are pretty reliable and will not ruin it. I put it in salt water and it sunk to the bottom. Not sure if the mixture was correct. I have a saltwater fish tank and I used water from it for the test because it is the same mixture as ocean water. Thanks for any help.
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Mushroom and Mycophagous Rove Beetle in Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Intact mushroom and mycophagous rove beetle in Burmese amber leak early evolution of mushrooms https://phys.org/news/2017-03-intact-mushroom-mycophagous-rove-beetle.html http://english.cas.cn/newsroom/research_news/201703/t20170314_174886.shtml http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/03/intact-mushroom-and-mycophagous-rove-beetle-in-burmese-amber-leak-early-evolution-of-mushrooms/114360 Chenyang Cai, R. A. B. Leschen, D. S. Hibbett, Fangyuan Xia, Huang Diying, 2017: Mycophagous rove beetles highlight diverse mushrooms in the Cretaceous. Nature Communications DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14894 http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14894 Yours, -
Hello, New to this forum. I recently have developed an interest in fossil inclusions in amber. After buying a number of prepared pieces, I decided I would like to try my hand at polishing some of my own. I found myself the owner of several hundred pieces of Dominican amber with inclusions. I have been doing a wet sand, and feel like I am close, but the pieces just don't seem to be getting a nice clear transparent finish. Any tips for finishing? I attached a few photos, the piece with the winged ants is from my collection and was polished by someone else, just for contrast with the one I was working on. I have a few pieces that look like they may have rarer inclusions (one looks like an earwig), so I am hoping to perfect the technique on a few more common pieces before I try my better ones. Thank you! Nathan
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Hi all, I picked up this piece of amber because of the interesting coprolite (caterpillar, I think). Anyway, it also has an interesting flying insect with a white substance surrounding it. The wings also look like they have some sort of protrusions along the edges as well. At first I thought it was some sort of spider silk, but I can't see any fibers. The only other thing I could think of was some sort of parasitic fungus. It was really hard to get a good photo of it. Are there any amber experts out there that have come across something like this?
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Hello! I have become recently obsessed with amber that contains fossils of ancient life. Looking at a piece of amber is like seeing a tiny piece of another world, frozen in time. Since I'm a newbie to the whole thing (though I've seen Jurassic Park at least 30 times since it came out. Ha ha Somehow I think, not so accurate), any advice and info from all of you would be great! Just anything at all. I have always enjoyed looking at fossils of all sorts but amber is my current interest. I would love to see photos of your collections! I doubt there is anywhere in my neck of the woods to find fossils but if anyone knows of any that would be great too. I can't even get anyone to show me where they find arrowheads and I know for a fact we have those around here. Oh well, some people like to be mysterious.
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Lets talk about amber! I would love to pick the brains of experienced collectors. I have done a lot of internet searches and read topics here on this forum, but I would love to know more. Right now I only have one piece (might be copal), that was a gift from someone who went to the big rock show in Arizona. I would love to go to that show myself someday! I have always been fascinated by the little worlds that are in the depths of amber. I would like to buy some more amber for my new collection but I feel the topic is so complicated. The prices range so much for what to the naked eye appears a very similar piece. Best advice on buying amber online? Is it, in your opinion, worth buying rough amber and polishing it yourself? It seems like an interesting treasure hunt! Any thoughts on this inexpensive amber coming out of Indonesia? Any good? Would you ever buy amber where the location it came from is unknown or unrevealed? Does anyone buy in bulk, sight unseen? Advice on storing and safely displaying? Anyone ever coat their amber with anything (wax, polish, etc) to help protect it from changes in temperature and humidity or damage from light? Any help or advice is greatly appreciated! If anyone has photos of their favorite specimens, or specimens you discovered yourself from a rough piece of amber, I would love to see them.
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New Order of Insect Found in Cretaceous Amber, Myanmar
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
'Alien' insect in amber prompts scientists to add whole new branch to family tree. This bizarre bug is so unusual, entomologists say it belongs in its own, entirely new, order of insects. Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 27, 2017 http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0127/Alien-insect-in-amber-prompts-scientists-to-add-whole-new-branch-to-family-tree Ancient, scary and alien-looking specimen forms a rarity in the insect world – a new order. Oregon State University http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2017/jan/ancient-scary-and-alien-looking-specimen-forms-rarity-insect-world-–-new-order https://www.flickr.com/photos/oregonstateuniversity/32520806205/ The paper is: Poinar, G. and Brown, A.E., 2016. An exotic insect Aethiocarenus burmanicus gen. et sp. nov.(Aethiocarenodea ord. nov., Aethiocarenidae fam. nov.) from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Cretaceous Research. Volume 72, April 2017, Pages 100–104 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667116302506 Yours, Paul H.
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