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Many models found in a sandstone quarry from Ecuador to 112 million years ago, Fabiani Herrera, co -editor of fossil plants at the Field Museum in Chicago, said. Released on Thursday Communications in Earth and Environmental Magazine.
Almost everything is known Amber Deposit in the past 130 million years David Grimaldi, an entomologist at the American Natural Historical Museum, said that it has long discovered some scientists in the southern regions, which has long been the Super Continental Gondwana.
This is indicative of researchers identifying the ancient beetles, flies, ants, and wasps in the fossil wood resin in South America, saying that the Palendomologist Ricardo Perez-de La Fun of the Oxford University of Oxford is not involved in the new study.
Perez-de La Fun Fun said that “Amber pieces are small windows in the past,” this invention will help researchers understand the growing interactions between the pests and insects that lived in the era of the dinosaurs.
Researchers found Ambar’s hundreds of pieces, some ancient insects, pollen and wooden leaves, in the sandstone quarry Equatorial It is on the edge of Amazon Basin today.
But today’s rainforests have been very different since the dinosaurs wandered around, Herrera said. Based on the analysis of amber fossils, there are ferns and cones, including the unusual monkey puzzle tree that no longer grown in amosonia in the ancient rainfoets.
“It’s a different kind of forest,” said Herrera.
The Amber Deposit was previously known to geologists and miners who worked at the Genovah Quarry. Carlos Jaramillo first heard of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, he heard the first decade ago and finds the right location with the help of geological field notes.
“I went there and realized that the place was amazing,” Zaramillo said. “There is so much amber in the mines”, and the open quarry is widely visible if hidden under the dense layers of plants.
Researchers will continue to analyze the Amber Tro-to learn more about crestralus term biodiversity-including insects that have contributed to the evolution by feeding the pastel plants. “Amber tends to protect small things,” said Grimaldi.
“It is time for the relationship between flowering plants and insects,” he said. “It turned out one of the most successful allies of nature.”
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