Re: Bird Evolution

[Stanley Friesen <sarima@ix.netcom.com>]

At 11:15 AM 4/12/98 -0700, Betty Cunningham wrote:
>wouldn't amber fossilisation tend to preserve a higher number of 
>forest insects?  I would think simply that a forest having a greater 
>number of trees would increase the amount of insects being preserved 
>in amber over other environmental areas.  So we SHOULD have a pretty 
>good representation of forest insects by this logic, right?
>
This is a possibility.  Still, amber is a rather limited mode of
fossilization, as it generally only preserves quite small forms.

Also, how would the forest amber *itself* be preserved?  It is a general
lack of upland forest *sediments* that leads to the fossil bias.

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