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Burmese Amber Fossils, Mining, Sales and Profits [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2020 The present work investigates the mining and sale of fossiliferous Burmese amber to determine if the profits are being used by the Myanmar military to commit atrocities against minority groups or ethnic armies within the country, as recently implied ...
George Poinar, Sieghard Ellenberger
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Fossil Trichoptera embedded in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber [PDF]
Contributions to Entomology, 2023 The paper gives an overview of Trichoptera found as adults in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber from about 100 million years ago. Fifty-eight extinct species are listed, three of which are still described here: Paduniella cretacea sp.
Wilfried Wichard
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Hard ticks in Burmese amber with Australasian affinities. [PDF]
Parasitology, 2023 Three examples of metastriate hard ticks (Ixodida: Ixodidae) with apparent affinities to modern Australasian genera are described from the mid-Cretaceous (ca. 100 Ma) Burmese amber of Myanmar. Two nymphs of Bothriocroton muelleri sp. nov.
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An ammonite trapped in Burmese amber. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019 Amber is fossilized tree resin, and inclusions usually comprise terrestrial and, rarely, aquatic organisms. Marine fossils are extremely rare in Cretaceous and Cenozoic ambers.
Yu T +9 more
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A giant mite in Cretaceous Burmese amber [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2018 An unusually large acariform mite is described as Immensmaris chewbaccei gen. et sp. nov. from the Cretaceous (ca. 100 Ma) Burmese amber of Myanmar.
J. A. Dunlop, K. Frahnert, J. Mąkol
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Spectral Characteristics of Unique Species of Burmese Amber [PDF]
Minerals, 2023 Special species of Burmese amber are highly valued within the gemological market due to their fancy optical characteristics. However, some ordinary amber species are misidentified as precious species, which has disrupted consumers’ purchasing ...
Chenxing Xin, Zhaotong Shi, Yamei Wang
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A remarkable assemblage of ticks from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. [PDF]
Parasitology, 2022 DATA: The data reported in this paper are detailed in the main text.Four fossil ticks (Arachnida: Parasitiformes: Ixodida) are described from mid-Cretaceous (ca. 100 Ma) Burmese amber of Myanmar. Ixodes antiquorum sp. nov.
Chitimia-Dobler L +3 more
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Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2021 [PDF]
Palaeoentomology, 2021 Ross, Andrew J. (2022): Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2021. Palaeoentomology 5 (1): 27-45, DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.1.
Ross, Andrew J., Ross, Andrew J
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Structural Evolution of Burmese Amber during Petrifaction Based on a Comparison of the Spectral Characteristics of Amber, Copal, and Rosin [PDF]
Journal of Spectroscopy, 2019 This paper presents a spectroscopic analysis and solubility study of rosin, copal, and Burmese amber samples to reveal the structural changes that occur during amber formation.
Feng Bai, Huifang Liang, Hongting Qu
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The first fossil cyphophthalmid harvestman from Baltic amber [PDF]
Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 2011 The first fossil cyphophthalmid harvestman (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) from Palaeogene (Eocene) Baltic amber is described. This is only the third fossil example of this basal harvestman lineage; the others being from the probably slightly younger ...
Dunlop, Jason A., Mitov, Plamen G.
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