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The Project team discover fossilized phloem sap for the first time

Savia Fósil Cueva El Soplao Drops of phloem sap about a quarter the thickness of a hair preserved in 105 Ma old El Soplao amber. Microphotograph Museo Geominero.

Abundant microscopic, dark inclusions in Cretaceous ambers, sometimes forming internal, dark bands, have been a mystery during decades. Some authors considered them as fossilized vacuole-bearing microorganisms. Now, part of the team that study the Spanish amber has discover that these inclusions actually are drops of phloem sap emissions together the original resin that contained them. The sap inclusions contain amber spheroids inside and preserve both organic and inorganic residues consistent with degraded components from its original composition. This discovery describe in fine detail the first fossilized phloem sap know, which is 105 million years old. Without doubt new lines of amber research are awaiting to be explored in taxonomy, taphonomy, paleophysiology and paleoecology using this phloem sap as case study.

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Descubierto en ámbar español un caso de parasitismo de hace 105 Ma

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Exposición temporal en el IGME, del 22 de diciembre de 2017 al 25 de septiembre de 2018
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“Amazing Amber” Workshop at the Oxford Natural History Museum
On 25 November, an open house called Super Saturday Science (SSS) was held at the Natural History Museum in Oxford (England). Its purpose is to make the research carried out and the results obtained attractive to the general public. Two members of the AMBERIA team, Ricardo Pérez de la Fuente and David Peris, presented the workshop "Amazing Amber" showing examples preserved in amber of different ages and origins, as well as reconstructions obtained through the ESRF synchrotron. This event also allowed visitors to see some of the museum's current entomological collections.