Carcharodontosaurus Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Does anyone on this forum know of any Mesozoic locations where amber has been found? I am aware of several sources, such as Lebanon, Hell Creek, Alberta and New Jersey, but are there other sites that I may not have heard of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Sharks Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Burma/Myanmar There's no limit to what you can accomplish when you're supposed to be doing something else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
painshill Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 (edited) Hi Carcharodon “Mesozoic” is a pretty wide span to be considering. From literature sources, as far as I am aware, and breaking it down: Triassic amber has been reported from Austria. Jurassic amber has been reported from Denmark (Bornholm). Cretaceous amber has been reported from Austria; Borneo (now a geographic island rather than a single country); Brazil; Canada (Alberta, British Columbia and Manitoba); Denmark (Bornholm); France; Greenland; Hungary; Israel; Japan; Lebanon; Mexico; Myanmar (formerly Burma); Poland; Russia (Siberian part of what is now called the CIS); Spain; Switzerland; United Kingdom; United States (Alaska, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas). [Addition]: I believe the Triassic deposits in Austria now also extend to the Southern Alps region in general, including parts of Germany, Italy and Switzerland. There may also be Jurassic amber in Southern Thailand and also Lebanon. Edited January 29, 2013 by painshill Roger I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who [Rudyard Kipling] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZ_Fossil_Collecta Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 i think there may be 70myo amber in the otago region of new zealand, it is from the predecessor of the kauri tree, but unlike kauri gum which is quite famous and available, it is proper amber and is extremely difficult to get ahold of, if it is even possible to do so at all. I'm CRAZY about amber fossils and just as CRAZY in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
painshill Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 i think there may be 70myo amber in the otago region of new zealand, it is from the predecessor of the kauri tree, but unlike kauri gum which is quite famous and available, it is proper amber and is extremely difficult to get ahold of, if it is even possible to do so at all. Yes, it was reported recently. The Kauri amber in lignite deposits in Otago and Southland dates back to 70 million years. Some of the more recent amber in those areas has fossil inclusions but they haven't found anything earlier than 25 million years as of yet. Roger I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who [Rudyard Kipling] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carcharodontosaurus Posted May 9, 2014 Author Share Posted May 9, 2014 Yes, it was reported recently. The Kauri amber in lignite deposits in Otago and Southland dates back to 70 million years. Some of the more recent amber in those areas has fossil inclusions but they haven't found anything earlier than 25 million years as of yet. Where can I find more information on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
painshill Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Professor Daphne Lee and Dr Uwe Kaulfuss at the University of Otago in New Zealand are leading the work in conjunction with Alexander Schmidt of the Amber Research Group at the University of Goettingen in Germany. Recent work was reported here in brief in February (but I think not yet fully published): http://www.otago.ac.nz/otagomagazine/issue37/inbrief/otago063694.html If you do an “edit/find” search for “amber” on the University’s abstract page here, there are a couple of interesting papers on New Zealand ambers (not specifically about the Cretaceous material): http://www.otago.ac.nz/V11-southern-connection/abstracts/ Anna Philie Kiecksee at the University of Goettingen is leading the imaging work for the wider project: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/419174.html The Goettingen University’s list of published Geobiology papers is here (again, do an “edit/find” search for “amber” on that page – many interesting papers relating to the wider project): http://www.geobiologie.uni-goettingen.de/research/publications/index_e.shtml … and a few more interesting abstracts, concerning Miocene inclusions in New Zealand amber: The first arthropods from New Zealand amber: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00944692/en Drowned in lakes and trapped in amber: diverse terrestrial arthropod faunas from Miocene New Zealand: http://ento.psiconf.com/abstracts/281.pdf Foulden Maar and South Island amber (New Zealand) - two exceptional windows into Southern Hemisphere Cenozoic terrestrial ecosystems: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00944701 Incidentally, in that list I provided at the beginning of the thread, I overlooked Cretaceous amber from Ethiopia: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2010/april/first-african-amber-reveals-cretaceous-life65764.html 1 Roger I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who [Rudyard Kipling] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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