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The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the ...
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Amber was first mentioned in 1821 by naturalist Gerard Troost, who described a specimen which contained a group of fossil scale insects from an outcrop at Cape Sable, Maryland. [1] Hollick reported in 1905 that during the height of clay mining at the turn of the 20th century, amber was found in such volumes that it was saved, and burned during ...
An additional amber specimen with partial fossils of six males of an unidentified species was described in 2013, and named as Baikuris ocellantis in 2024. The amber was recovered from sediments of the Black Creek Formation along the Neuse River in North Carolina.
The genus is solely known from the New Jersey amber deposits along the Atlantic coastal plain in New Jersey, United States, which date from the Turonian stage (about 90–94 Mya) of the Upper Cretaceous. [1] Archaeomarasmius is one of only five known agaric fungus species known in the fossil record, and the only one to be described from New ...
The holotype fossil is composed of a very complete adult male recovered from the Guadalupe Victoria site. [1] Mexican amber is recovered from fossil bearing rocks in the Simojovel region of Chiapas, Mexico. The amber dates from between 23 million years old at the oldest and 15 million years at the youngest.
Amber is heterogeneous in composition, but consists of several resinous bodies [clarify] more or less soluble in alcohol, ether and chloroform, associated with an insoluble bituminous substance. Amber is a macromolecule formed by free radical polymerization [22] of several precursors in the labdane family, for example, communic acid, communol ...
An amateur fossil hunter has uncovered a piece of animal vomit which dates back 66 million years on a beach in Denmark. Amateur fossil hunter finds 66-million-year-old animal vomit Skip to main ...