Canadian Amber: A Snapshot of a Late Cretaceous Forest and Its Inhabitants

Canadian Amber: A Snapshot of a Late Cretaceous Forest and Its Inhabitants

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Botanical affinities: infrared spectra (FTIR)

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Botanical affinities: infrared spectra (FTIR)

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Canadian Amber: A Snapshot of a Late Cretaceous Forest and Its Inhabitants

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  1. 1 Ryan C. McKellar
  2. 2 Outline
  3. 3 What exactly is amber?
  4. 4 Entombment and the nature of the trap: Flows
  5. 5 The stereotypical view of amber
  6. 6 Where did Cedar Lake amber come from?
  7. 7 Grassy Lake amber and the role of the RTMP
  8. 8 Other Albertan ambers (resinites)
  9. 9 Canadian amber in a broader context: why is Canadian amber important?
  10. 10 In the context of other Cretaceous ambers
  11. 11 Mosses and lichen in Grassy Lake Amber
  12. 12 Botanical affinities: plant inclusions
  13. 13 Botanical affinities: infrared spectra (FTIR)
  14. 14 Fingerprinting Grassy Lake amber
  15. 15 Insect biodiversity
  16. 16 Parasitoid wasps (microhymenopterans)
  17. 17 Serphites pygmaeus McKellar & Engel, 2011
  18. 18 Formicidae: Haidoterminus cippus (nomen nudum)
  19. 19 Insect conclusions
  20. 20 Mating congregations
  21. 21 Compression fossils of Sinornithosaurus plumage
  22. 22 Preservation and melanosomes in compression fossils
  23. 23 A feather evo-devo primer ...
  24. 24 The Canadian amber dichotomy
  25. 25 Stages I and II barbules: non-avian
  26. 26 Stage IV barbs and barbules: avialan
  27. 27 Stage IV, specializations for water uptake
  28. 28 Stage V, and specializations for flight
  29. 29 Pigmentation
  30. 30 Plumage conclusions
  31. 31 Coal-associated ambers
  32. 32 The quest for Paleocene amber
  33. 33 Synchrotron X-ray microtomography
  34. 34 General conclusions

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