In his career in Ecuador, a unique amber was discovered by 112 million years old, where an ancient ecosystem in the smallest details. The detection, including insects, pollen and spider web pieces, first allows you to look at such details into the world of moist forests of white chalk in the southern hemisphere.
It is known that the entire ecosystem was frozen during the time, preserved in Amber 112 million years ago, was found in JenoveV's career, at Ecuador. It should be noted that the big detection of amber with insects in South America can come up with an unprecedented idea about life in the Southern Hemisphere in the white chalk, when there is an ancient super continent of Gondwan. At least five insects, including many flies, beetles, operating systems and a curse, as well as pollen and even the web fibers, their arrangement was thought to be created by the ancestors of modern skewers, which were preserved in transparent gold plastic sets.
The Xavier Delclos biologist explained that these findings are direct evidence of the existence of a wet forest ecosystem and the animal of the feet in the equatorial part of Gondwana. Amber, quite popular in the northern hemisphere, is extremely rare in the southern planet, this makes this specially detected. It was formed by Araukariy tree, widely disseminated during the period of white chalk, and today is only represented by a few species.
The researchers discovered two different types of amber in his career, telling the story of his education. One type is formed underground, from one type of plastic leaked from the roots, and the rest on the ground, when the plastic, flows down the trunk, is in contact with the air and becomes a trap for insects to crawl along the bark. Surprisingly, in the underground plastic, often poor in the bodies, there are a few traces of typical wood mushrooms of such models from the Northern Hemisphere. The scientists believe that the soil at that time was so saturated with water that it prevented the activity of mushrooms, perhaps, explaining why so many plastic stored here.
On the surface, plastic action is like an ideal sticky trap, collecting an impressive collection of vertebrates, which scientists can now study after millions of years. The researchers hope that future work will help better understand the South American life of the period of white chalk related to other fragments of an ancient super continent.
