Amber Ladybug Earrings

1. Subfossil copal can be distinguished from genuine fossil amber because it becomes tacky when a drop of a solvent such as acetone or chloroform is placed on it.
2. The oldest amber with arthropod inclusions comes from the Levant, from Lebanon and Jordan. This amber, roughly 125–135 million years old, is considered of high scientific value, providing evidence of some of the oldest sampled ecosystems.
3. Amber becomes abundant long after the Carboniferous, in the Early Cretaceous.
4. Solidified resin from which the volatile terpene components have been removed by distillation is known as rosin.
5. On the contrary, the Dominican red and yellow amber varieties have a much weaker and featureless emission, although still do have a certain fluorescence.
6. Its chemical composition makes it difficult to match the amber to its producers – it is most similar to the resins produced by flowering plants; however, there are no flowering plant fossils until the Cretaceous, and they were not common until the Upper Cretaceous.