TY - JOUR
T1 - Amber and the Cretaceous Resinous Interval
AU - Delclòs, Xavier
AU - Peñalver, Enrique
AU - Barrón, Eduardo
AU - Peris, David
AU - Grimaldi, David A.
AU - Holz, Michael
AU - Labandeira, Conrad C.
AU - Saupe, Erin E.
AU - Scotese, Christopher R.
AU - Solórzano-Kraemer, Mónica M.
AU - Álvarez-Parra, Sergio
AU - Arillo, Antonio
AU - Azar, Dany
AU - Cadena, Edwin A.
AU - Dal Corso, Jacopo
AU - Kvaček, Jiří
AU - Monleón-Getino, Antonio
AU - Nel, André
AU - Peyrot, Daniel
AU - Bueno-Cebollada, Carlos A.
AU - Gallardo, Alejandro
AU - González-Fernández, Beatriz
AU - Goula, Marta
AU - Jaramillo, Carlos
AU - Kania-Kłosok, Iwona
AU - López-Del Valle, Rafael
AU - Lozano, Rafael P.
AU - Meléndez, Nieves
AU - Menor-Salván, César
AU - Peña-Kairath, Constanza
AU - Perrichot, Vincent
AU - Rodrigo, Ana
AU - Sánchez-García, Alba
AU - Santer, Maxime
AU - Sarto i Monteys, Víctor
AU - Uhl, Dieter
AU - Viejo, José Luis
AU - Pérez-de la Fuente, Ricardo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023
PY - 2023/8
Y1 - 2023/8
N2 - Amber is fossilized resin that preserves biological remains in exceptional detail, study of which has revolutionized understanding of past terrestrial organisms and habitats from the Early Cretaceous to the present day. Cretaceous amber outcrops are more abundant in the Northern Hemisphere and during an interval of about 54 million years, from the Barremian to the Campanian. The extensive resin production that generated this remarkable amber record may be attributed to the biology of coniferous resin producers, the growth of resiniferous forests in proximity to transitional sedimentary environments, and the dynamics of climate during the Cretaceous. Here we discuss the set of interrelated abiotic and biotic factors potentially involved in resin production during that time. We name this period of mass resin production by conifers during the late Mesozoic, fundamental as an archive of terrestrial life, the ‘Cretaceous Resinous Interval’ (CREI).
AB - Amber is fossilized resin that preserves biological remains in exceptional detail, study of which has revolutionized understanding of past terrestrial organisms and habitats from the Early Cretaceous to the present day. Cretaceous amber outcrops are more abundant in the Northern Hemisphere and during an interval of about 54 million years, from the Barremian to the Campanian. The extensive resin production that generated this remarkable amber record may be attributed to the biology of coniferous resin producers, the growth of resiniferous forests in proximity to transitional sedimentary environments, and the dynamics of climate during the Cretaceous. Here we discuss the set of interrelated abiotic and biotic factors potentially involved in resin production during that time. We name this period of mass resin production by conifers during the late Mesozoic, fundamental as an archive of terrestrial life, the ‘Cretaceous Resinous Interval’ (CREI).
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U2 - 10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104486
DO - 10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104486
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85163836579
SN - 0012-8252
VL - 243
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Earth-Science Reviews
JF - Earth-Science Reviews
IS - 104486
M1 - 104486
ER -