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Hello all, I would like to add Amber to my fossil collection but i am lost online due to all the concern about fake Amber. Could anyone recommend a reputable site or person to purchase from? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
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So, a little bit about my situation. I was on an auction, and I was able to get this piece of “authentic Dominican Amber with a zacryptocerus ant.” I know what you’re thinking, I probably should’ve posted this before I got it. However, I couldn’t because it was an auction that was ending very quickly. I didn’t have time. I took a gamble and got it. It arrived today, and I would like to know how I can tell if it is real or fake. Can someone help me out? Some details so far, it weighs 1.3 grams, and is 1 inch long. Jared
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My Dear friends, Here a little showing up but i must do it becouse this is essence of my passion ( not showing up but resoults of passion ). My first wasp named after me, finally <3 Helorus arturi was described by Jyrki Muona from Finland. Here is the article and pdf file. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343997607_Helorus_arturi_sp_nov_Hymenoptera_Proctotrupoidea_Heloridae_from_Baltic_amber And a wasp pic. Cheers ! Artur
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Not sure if this amber is actually amber
KompsFossilsNMinerals posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi everyone, this is a piece of "amber" I bought a little while back. Not entirely sure if it's real so I thought I'd check here. It fluoresces green under a UV light and sort of smells sappy when pricked with a hot pin. Also included are some microscopic photos of the insect inclusions.
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Hello, I would like to share with the forum some amber specimens I possess. These fossils are encased in burmite, amber dated to ~99 million years ago. Anyone else have some?
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Greetings, dear forum participants. I would like to welcome everyone to discuss a sample of Baltic amber with a possible animal fingerprint. Place of origin Baltic Sea coast. The age of the find is unknown. Areas highlighted in the photo, presumably the animal's fingerprints. Between the possible prints there is an imprinted structure, presumably animal fur. In addition to photographs, I made a video showing how I remove a sample form from amber. ***Translation from Russian using google translator.
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Looking to try my hand at finding amber in NJ. Any tips in collection? I.E. sifter, shovel, black light, what methods to collect work best? Thanks.
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I bought this lamp to hunt for amber but im not sure if its the right one. It says its 250 lm
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Hi everyone! Can anyone help me id some small insects in amber? They're all from Myanmar and about 99 million years old. They're pretty small, mostly about 2 millimeters or less. I took the best photos I could, any help narrowing down what type of insect (or possibly arachnid) is greatly appreciated.
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After a storm recently I was walking down the beach and found a large rock in the surf at a beach off of Charleston, SC. The first photo is of the rock intact, the second is of pieces of the rock that broke off when I tried to lift it. I looked online for tests for Amber. I completed the salt water float test (the piece that I tested floated), hot needle (it smelled like pine resin), and acetone test (it did not dissolve). Having passed all of theses tests I'm feeling more confident that it might be Amber? Would love thoughts from the forum. Is it amber? Where would it come from to end up on a beach in SC? Thank you in advance for any feedback.
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I found this on online and am considering on getting it. Also, I'm new to online and don't know much about it.
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Hey everyone, I found this piece when searching for fossils in the White River Formation. I found it at a site that produces a lot of petrified wood. I didn't think it was anything when I first picked it up, but am now thinking it looks like amber. What are your thoughts? Thanks in advance!
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99 million year old flower found encased in amber. http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/valviloculus-pleristaminis-09184.html
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From the album: Aguja Formation
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I have 1kg of rough Burmese amber stones ready to polish but I'm a little stumped as to where to start. I've polished Dominican pieces before using a dremel and wet sandpaper with success, but this stuff is older and much harder. In addition to the thin rough skin on these pieces, a lot have rock (or some combination of amber/earth) running through them making it difficult to figure out the plan of attack in regard to finding inclusions and getting a nice shine. Anyone here have experience with this?
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I have been finding a lot of these recently. They are waxy to the touch and come in a variety of pale white to orange tinted. Are these pieces of amber or are they some other kind of mineral? Thanks!
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Greetings! I'm retired from a geospatial career, a geology major who did most of my collecting from the 1950s through the early 1990s. My collection is a disappointment to kids who want to see dinosaur fossils - it is 99% invertebrates and plants. For decades, I relied on paper notes, but am now cataloging using Trilobase. I am up to 1,800 specimens, but some catalog number represent dozens of individual species and some specimens (i.e. amber) have up to 67 catalog numbers for individual bugs, plant material, etc. I still have a lot to learn, thus my participating in Fossil Forum and other fossil sites. But I hope to be able to reciprocate by helping others whenever I am able.
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Macro Photography Setup Recommendation?
Barrelcactusaddict posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Good afternoon, I'm a new member here, and I was hoping to get some advice on what I should use for a macro setup on a budget. I'm a huge enthusiast of fossil amber, however I have no decent way of photographing inclusions; I have tons of specimens (many with fauna & flora inclusions) from all over the world, including New Jersey and Wyoming, and am eager to share images of them. I'm on a tight budget, and anything over $750 USD is right out; I have tried a few digital microscopes in the past, (most recently, the Hayear HY-1080 34MP), but none seem to give me suitable resolution and image quality. I have thought of trying the Olympus Tough TG-6, but I am reluctant to invest in anything more that could prove unreliable for this specific application. Please, is there anyone that photographs amber inclusions that can recommend a reliable setup that isn't too expensive? I only have a Mac OS, so most USB microscopes are out of the question; hopefully there's something simple that saves images to a microSD card. Thank you so much!! -Kaegen- 10 replies
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Earliest example of a rapid-fire tongue found in 'weird and wonderful' extinct amphibians
LabRatKing posted a topic in Fossil News
"This discovery adds a super-cool piece to the puzzle of this obscure group of weird little animals," said study co-author Edward Stanley, director of the Florida Museum of Natural History's Digital Discovery and Dissemination Laboratory. "Knowing they had this ballistic tongue gives us a whole new understanding of this entire lineage." https://phys.org/news/2020-11-earliest-rapid-fire-tongue-weird-extinct.html -
Hiya everyone needing help with this piece of amber
Georgemckenzie posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hiya everyone thinking of getting this small piece of amber says there’s a fly in it just wanting to know if it’s real there’s no information on age or that but the seller has sold me a real fossil so a little help would be great thanks
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Is it possible to find baltic amber in gothenburg or close?
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Hey! I blindly bought a bunch of rough Dominican amber and found this thing dead center in a large piece. The main blob has bubbles in it so I thought it might just be a pocket full of air, but after looking at the microscope and seeing appendages I'm not so sure. Is this just a fluke or actually something? These are the best photos I could take – any ideas?
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Many things get stuck in sap and then turn into amber including leaves. If one were to sand it down, break it, cut it, etc and get the leaf out would it feel like a normal leaf or just crumble because it is 10s of millions of years old? I don't have a leaf in amber and I'm not planning on doing this just curious. And if there was a seed could it be planted and sprout a tree?
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I was encouraged to share this in the forum so here it goes. I was given a pile of "amber" and two pieces that may or may not (most likely not) have something inside. After the "amber" failed the saltwater float test it was proposed that I may have copal, NOT amber. I tried my best to take as clear of pictures as my camera phone would allow. The first piece supposedly it has a "bug or stick or something" inside. The copal, if it really is copal, does not appear very clear, even with a light source behind it. The second piece is a little more transparent when the light shines through with the exception of the mysterious dark object lurking on the middle. (queue the spooky music!) Personally I think that both of these may just be dirt that accumulated in a crack when the copal was forming a long ago but this has apparently been a topic of hot debate. So if ya'll got any opinions on the matter, I'd love to hear them...or if you don't want to share your opinions, just tell me that I've discovered some weird new sub-species of dinosaur and I'll be happy with that. lol
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Seems the questions raised around that exciting news of an avian dinosaur preserved in Burmese amber were right after all. The original paper has been retracted by its authors, after the discovery of another fossil closely resembling the previously discovered skull portion of Oculudentavis was classified as a species of lizard, rather than an avian dinosaur. Disappointing for dinosaur fans, but it doesn't change the fact that any Late Cretaceous vertebrate preserved in this way is still an exceptional find. Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2553-9
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