A new proposal concerning the botanical origin of Baltic amber

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1672, 2009, Pages 3403-3412

  Wolfe, Alexander P ^a   Tappert, Ralf ^b   Muehlenbachs, Karlis ^a   Boudreau, Marc ^c   McKellar, Ryan C ^a   Basinger, James F ^d   Garrett, Amber ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baltic amber; Conifer resin; Eocene; Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy; Sciadopityaceae; Sciadopitys verticillata

Indexed keywords

AMBER;

AMBER; BIOME; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EOCENE; FOSSIL; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; INSECT; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOTEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CONIFER; CUPRESSACEAE; FOSSIL PLANT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID STATE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

ARAUCARIACEAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; CUPRESSACEAE; HEXAPODA; METASEQUOIA; PINACEAE; PSEUDOLARIX; SCIADOPITYACEAE; SCIADOPITYS VERTICILLATA;

AMBER; ANIMALS; BALTIC STATES; CONIFEROPHYTA; FOSSILS; INSECTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHYLOGENY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 70349621830     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0806     Document Type: Article

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