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

Tue May 14 09:39:36 PDT 2019

*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
<https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/05/ancient-ammonite-fossilized-in-tree-resin-burmese-amber/>

The PNAS article <https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/05/09/1821292116>

Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.

Botanist, Division of Scientific Authority

US Fish & Wildlife Service

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