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Issue: Vol. 6 No. 4: August 2023
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2023-08-28
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.4.2
Page range: 325–328
Abstract views: 346
PDF downloaded: 12

New record of Libanochlites neocomicus Brundin, 1976 from the lower Barremian amber outcrop of Bqaatouta, Lebanon

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China; Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Department of Life & Earth Sciences, Fanar, Lebanon
Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Department of Life & Earth Sciences, Fanar, Lebanon
Mazraat Yachouh, El-Maten, Lebanon
New record lower Barremian amber

Abstract

Amber, dubbed by Ross (1998, 2010) as a “natural time capsule”, is a fossil resin renowned for its remarkable preservation fidelity of biological inclusions. Its unique property to capture organisms in pristine condition has offered scientists the opportunity to access to some minute details permitting as such to better evaluate the evolutionary stages of different animal and vegetal groups, and to open a portal to past environments and ecological dynamics of early periods in the natural history of the Earth (Azar et al., 2010).

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