Birds and animals in amber

We have yet to see a complete true mammal in Kretaceous amber. What cretaceous amber does offer you however is BIRDS, AMPHIBIANS and LIZARDS and combinations of both known as PTERASAURS. Recenly we have had enquiries regarding rumors of Coelurosaurs in amber and can confirm that we have yet to see such an animal in Cretaceous Amber.

Birds and animals in amber is one of our major focusses and this section has been divided into sub-pages to help present the some of our specimens

• Birds
• Bird heads
• Bird eggs
• Bird feathers
• Bird nests
• Habitat of birds



• Click here if you would like to see pterosaur/bird teeth images using fluorescence.
• Click here if you would like to see pterosaur/bird teeth images without fluorescence.
• Click here if you would like to see hi-resolution sideview of pterosaur/bird head
• Click here if you would like to see hi resolution topview of pterosaur/bird head.


• Click here if you would like to see Hi Res images of the anurognathid wing claw


• Click here if you would like a free download of reconstructed 3d stack of TIFF files for you to render yourself


• Click here if you would like to see hires images the done flying anurognathid pterosaur rendered on Dragonfly software by Object Research Systems


• Click here if you would like to see hires multi source videos of the anurognathus pterosaur rendered on Dragonfly software by Object Research Systems


• Click here if you would like to see full images of an anurognathid with a cricket on its neck chasing a dragonfly in Cretaceous amber


• Click here if you would like to see Head images of an anurognathid that show its lizard like skin.


• Click here if you would like to see images of other insects and spiders found with the anurognathid in the Cretaceous amber


• Click here if you would like to see images of the dragonfly found with the anurognathid in the Cretaceous amber

A recently found creature with wings in a very large Hukawng amber containing an entire rookery of aboreal volants with incredible feathers, below is a front view of the yet to be identified tetrapod. Although relatively large this creature at around 6cms tall and incomplete the head wing bones and feathers are clearly visible. In the same piece of amber is a more complete mother and father that are 20 tall and 30 cms tall. 3D micro ct scans of this piece of amber yielded incredible results revealing far far more than in this image.

VERTEBRATA (2c., 3o., 3f., 1g., 1sp.)

Amphibia (1o.)

Anura

Reptilia (2o., 3f., 1g., 1sp.)

Squamata (3f., 1g., 1sp.)

Agamidae

Chamaeleonidae

Gekkonidae?

Cretaceogekko burmae Arnold & Poinar, 2008

Arnold, E. N. & Poinar, G.O.Jr. 2008. A 100 million year old gecko with sophisticated adhesive toe pads, preserved in amber from Myanmar. Zootaxa, No. 1847, 62-68.