[Pollinator] Terrestrial Arthropods encased in amber alongside a fossilized sea creature

[Louise Lynch-O'Brien]

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Louise


On Jun 12, 2019, at 2:54 PM, Louise Lynch-O'Brien via Pollinator <pollinator at lists.sonic.net> wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> I will be out of the office from June 13th through June 23rd. I will be checking email but my response time will be a little slower. If you need a quick response, please call or text me at 402-327-1574.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Louise
> 
> 
> On May 14, 2019, at 11:39 AM, De Angelis, Patricia via Pollinator <pollinator at lists.sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> The Nat Geo article here is based on a recently-published PNAS picked up an article that expounds upon the strange discovery of a marine organism alongside terrestrial arthorpods (including Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera spp.)...Links to the full Nat Geo story and the PNAS articles are below.
> 
> This ancient sea creature fossilized in tree resin. How'd that happen?
> In what may be a first of its kind, a lump of amber has preserved the shell of an ammonite and other shoreline life in stunning detail.
> 
> National Geographic
> BY MICHAEL GRESHKO
> PUBLISHED MAY 13, 2019
> 
> NINETY-NINE MILLION YEARS ago in what's now Myanmar, a glob of tree resin oozed onto a beach. Today, the resulting fossilized lump of amber is giving scientists an astonishing glimpse into life on a Cretaceous coastline.
> 
> In a study published Monday in the journal PNAS, researchers led by Chinese paleontologist Tingting Yu reveal what is likely the first known record of an ammonite found in amber. These extinct marine mollusks were ancient relatives of octopuses and squid, and they didn't venture on land. Finding an ammonite shell in a land-formed fossil is therefore as eyebrow-raising as finding dinosaur remains on the bottom of an ancient seafloor.
> 
> Read the full Nat Geo story
> 
> The PNAS article
> 
> 
> Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.
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