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