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[JOHN FUDALA]

Ron,

very nice indeed!
And how miniute the amber piece was!

Makes me wonder what can be discovered in the Triassic ambers from
Italy and Lebanon... or the newly discovered Jurassic amber in
Thailand.
Of course the rich in inclusions Cretaceous lebanese amber is
probabely just a matter of time to match this discovery.

John

On 6/2/07, Ron Buckley <ronbuckley at fuse.net> wrote:
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> Hi, George Poinar and I have  been waiting a long time to release the
> imformation on this mushroom, and can finally do so.It is an important piece
> of amber because:
>
> 1.It is the oldest found mushroom in the world.
> 2. It is the first found in the fossil record of a parasite living on
> something with another parasite living on the parasite.
> If it were not for the efforts of Jim Davis to make Burmite available this
> fantastic discovery would never have come to light. The specimen came to me
> as an unknown. I thought it was a mushroom and had George poinar make a
> positive identification on it .
> We are awaiting releasenow on some beautiful flowers, an unknown beetle and
> a beautifully colored grasshopper.
> .
> Regards, Ron
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