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Dominican Amber (La Toca Fm. [Mamey Group], 20.43-13.65 Ma)
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From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
Small specimen of red-skinned blue amber from the La Toca Mine. Piece weighs 2.4g and measures 26x18x16mm. There are a few dendritic inclusions of moss, and as a whole, the piece is free of fractures and quite clean. The blue fluorescence is caused by certain hydrocarbons (i.e., perylene) that formed within the resin over its millions of years of burial; fluorescent hydrocarbons in amber are believed to be formed due to several possible factors: fire, geothermal or volcanic heat, prolonged submergence in a marine or lacustrine (lake) environment, etc. This specimen was partially polished and illuminated with 140 lumen LED light (yellow phosphor).© Kaegen Lau
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Land plants arose earlier than thought—and may have had a bigger impact on the evolution of animals By Elizabeth Pennisi, Feb. 19, 2018 http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/land-plants-arose-earlier-thought-and-may-have-had-bigger-impact-evolution-animals Plants may have colonized Earth's surface 100 MILLION years earlier than previously thought, Press association, Daily Mail, Feb. 19, 2018 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5410161/New-research-pushes-history-land-plants-100-million-years.html Morris, JL, Puttick, M, Clark, J, Edwards, D, Kenrick, P, Pressel, S, Wellman, CH, Yang, Z, Harald, S & Donoghue, P, 2018, ‘The timescale of early land plant evolution: controlling for competing topologies and dating strategies on divergence time estimates’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/earthsciences/people/mark-n-puttick/pub/142491407 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/earthsciences/people/mark-n-puttick/index.html Yours, Paul H.
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