Ancient Amazon Amber Reveals Stunning, Millennia-Old Spiderwebs and Insects Frozen in Time
Researchers identified the amber’s age as early Albian (the last age in the Early Cretaceous) based on pollen assemblages, particularly the co-occurrence of specific species characteristic of that period.
Pollen analysis showed that ferns dominated the forest, followed by angiosperms, conifers, and gnetophytes.
“This discovery and the associated plant remains in the amber-bearing rocks, enhance our understanding of the Gondwanan arthropod fauna and flora inhabiting forests along its western margin during a time interval of major ecosystem transformation,” the research team wrote.
The specimens will be housed at the Laboratory of Paleontology at Escuela Politécnica Nacional in Quito. The research was conducted by an international team including scientists from Spain, Ecuador, the United States, and Germany.
Researchers say future fieldwork in the Hollín Formation is expected to yield additional fossil bioinclusions that may further illuminate the evolution and distribution of life in the prehistoric Southern Hemisphere.
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