99-Million-Year-Old Ammonite Found in Burmese Amber

Sci-News ^ | May 14, 2019 | by Natali Anderson

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops... Annam... Annamese...

[a fool in paradise]

“Try looking over there, at least the light is better”

[SunkenCiv]

You could set up something like my ez-posting link for GGG...

• post a GGG topic

[SunkenCiv]

The "Look Back In Amber" keyword:

• First examples of Iberian prehistoric 'imitation amber' beads at gravesites [2019]
• Frozen in time Ancient insects trapped in amber at the precise moment they hatched from their eggs [2018]
• Ancient bird fossils have 'the weirdest feathers I have ever seen' [2018]
• 99-Million-Year-Old Snake Hatchling Found Encased in Burmese Amber [2018]
• A surprise find: 99-million-year-old frog encased in amber [2018]
• Remarkable spider with a tail found preserved in amber after 100 million years [2018]
• Ticks Trapped in Amber Were Likely Sucking Dinosaur Blood [2017]
• Ticks That Fed on Dinosaurs Found Trapped in Amber [2017]
• New Cretaceous Fossils Shed Light On The Early Evolution Of Ants [2016]
• Ancient flowering plant was beautiful -- but probably poisonous [2016]
• Scientists Have Found An Ancient Fossilized Mosquito Full Of Blood (46 Million Years OLD) [2013]
• Dinosaur Feathers Discovered in Canadian Amber [2013]
• A Fossilized Scene of a Spider Attacking a Wasp, Preserved for 110 Million Years [2012]
• Prehistoric tiny bugs found trapped in amber [2012]
• 'Dinofuzz' Found in Canadian Amber [2011]
• Peru researchers make rare ancient insect find [2011]
• Prehistoric mammal hair found in Cretaceous amber [2010]
• Marine plankton found in amber [2008]
• Scientists Discover 356 Animal Inclusions Trapped In Opaque Amber 100 Million Years Old [2008]
• Dino-Era Feathers Found Encased In Amber (100 Million Years Old) [2008]
• How Amber Becomes Death Trap For Watery Creatures [2007]
• Scientist: Frog Could Be 25M Years Old [2007]
• Scientist finds 100 million-year-old bee [2006]
• Spider 'is 20 million years old' [2005]
• Oldest spider silk preserved in amber [2003]
• Dinosaur Breath - Cretaceous Atmosphere Sample obtained and Studied. [2003]

[Synthesist]

“The fact that the ammonite shell was preserved in amber IS fantastic news!”
I agree. I don’t believe there’s ever been an actual ammonite shell discovered, only their fossilized remains.

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Exactly! Since fossilization in stone normally replaces a creature’s organic remains with other minerals over time, they only show a shadow of the creature. Fossils in amber seem to not suffer from this process.

[Rebelbase]

“That’s a shame, it would be great if they could extract DNA from the ammonite as they’ve done for insects preserved in amber. “

The French would clone it for giant escargo.

[ek_hornbeck]

More like calamari - ammonites were basically a squid inside of a coiled shell (kind of like the still-living Nautilus).

[ViLaLuz]

I found bucket loads of ammonites in the dry bed of Benbrook Lake during that bad drought we had a few years ago.