Vast Amber Deposit From India: New Trove Of Fossils Suggests Global Distribution Of Tropical Forest Ecosystems In The Eocene

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Vast Amber Deposit from India: New Trove of Fossils Suggests Global Distribution of Tropical Forest Ecosystems in the Eocene

 

 

ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2010) — A vast new amber deposit in India has yielded 100 fossil spiders, bees, and flies that date to the Early Eocene, or 52-50 million years ago. These arthropods are not unique -- as would be expected on an island (which India was at that time) -- but have close evolutionary relationships with fossils from the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The amber is also the oldest evidence of a tropical broadleaf rainforest in Asia.

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025152256.htm