Amber Listserv / Amber Digest, Vol 47, Issue 12

[Patty Rice]

Here is information about the frog in amber from Chiapas.


Frog in amber may be 25M years old - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070216/ap_on_sc/mexico_frog_in_amber


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On Feb 17, 2007, at 2:22 PM, amber-request at ambericawest.com wrote:

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> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:04:29 -0800
> From: "Anderson, Scott -- NUS" <Scott.Anderson at ttnus.com>
> Subject: Amber Listserv / Amber Listserv/ Unknown Inclusion and
> 	Mexican Frog
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> Hi Everyone,
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> The inclusion forwarded by The Edgar's appears to be a wingless  
> female dipteran, perhaps something near Phoridae.  I'm really not  
> sure about the family as I'm sure that there are other families of  
> dipterans with wingless females.
>
> The first temptation on ID is flea, but there is no comb present on  
> the back of the head, the legs seem awfully thin and lack the  
> characteristic spines.  There appears to be no features in the  
> image that relate to maxillary and labial palps.  If a close-up  
> shot of the head is possible, that would help further in the  
> indentification.
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> Does anyone know or have contact information for the Gerardo Carbot  
> of the Chiapas Natural History and Ecology Institute?  I searched  
> on Google on both his name and the Institute and can't find  
> anything on either.
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> Thanks,
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> Scott Anderson
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> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:21:11 -0800
> From: The Edgars <theedgars at shaw.ca>
> Subject: Amber Listserv / new photos
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> hear are some new photos
> I hope there better
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