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Issue: Vol. 2 No. 4: August 2019
Type: Short Communication
Published: 2019-08-30
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.4.8
Page range: 345–349
Abstract views: 241
PDF downloaded: 8

A new amber outcrop from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern China

Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Department of Natural Sciences, P.O. Box: 26110217, Fanar – Matn, Lebanon
Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Department of Natural Sciences, P.O. Box: 26110217, Fanar – Matn, Lebanon State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, China
CAS Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, and Centre for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, United Kingdom
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, China
General Lower Cretaceous Amber

Abstract

The amber is a fossilized vegetal resin ranging from a few millions to more than 300 million years (mid-Carboniferous) in age (Sargent Bray & Anderson, 2009). It constitutes a superb material for the conservation of biological inclusions in their minute three-dimensional details (Poinar, 2003).

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