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English: Late Triassic to early Paleogene ambers of Southern Pangea and Southern Gondwana with representative amber specimens and site images from the Late Triassic, Late Cretaceous and early Paleogene. (A to C) Fingal Valley, northeastern Tasmania, Fingal Valley Coal Measures, Carnian, Upper Triassic. (A) Several amber pieces <2 mm from the coal measures. (B) 2 mm piece of amber with preserved bark and microbe-like inclusions. (C) Photograph of Fingal Valley Triassic amber site. (D to F) Waihere Bay, western Pitt Island, Chatham Islands, Tupuangi Formation, upper Cenomanian, lower Upper Cretaceous. (D) Conducting fieldwork in the richly fossiliferous sections of the southern Waihere Bay. (E) Well preserved in situ amber droplet 3.2 mm long. (F) Seed cone scales of Protodammara reimatamoriori Mays & Cantrill, 2019, image depicting in situ resin canals within the dispersed ovuliferous complexes. (G to I) Strahan, Macquarie Harbour, Macquarie Harbour Formation, Western Tasmania, lower Eocene. (G) Inclusion-rich amber piece. (H) Section of Macquarie Harbour Formation along Macquarie Harbour near Strahan with fossiliferous strata. William De Silva for scale. (I) Clear, glassy amber specimen. (J to L) Anglesea Coal Measures, Alcoa Mine, Victoria, Australia, upper middle Eocene. (J) Collecting samples at main amber site. (K) Piece of clear yellow Anglesea amber with inclusion of new dipteran (Ceratopogonidae). (L) In situ amber piece at primary site with Estwing rock pick for scale.
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Source Amber from the Triassic to Paleogene of Australia and New Zealand as exceptional preservation of poorly known terrestrial ecosystems
Author Jeffrey D. Stilwell, Andrew Langendam, Chris Mays, Lachlan J. M. Sutherland, Antonio Arillo, Daniel J. Bickel, William T. De Silva, Adele H. Pentland, Guido Roghi, Gregory D. Price, David J. Cantrill, Annie Quinney & Enrique Peñalver
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