Tertiary fossil forests of the Geodetic Hills, Axel Heiberg Island, Arctic Archipelago
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...…are of comparable age to Baltic amber (i.e. Middle Eocene) and include deposits in northern Canada with exceptional preservation: the Buchanan Lake Formation on Axel Heiberg Island (798550 N, 898020 W; Basinger 1991) and the Giraffe kimberlite locality (648440 N, 1098450 W; Wolfe et al. 2006)....
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...Eocene) and include deposits in northern Canada with exceptional preservation: the Buchanan Lake Formation on Axel Heiberg Island (798550 N, 898020 W; Basinger 1991) and the Giraffe kimberlite locality (648440 N, 1098450 W; Wolfe et al....
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...Resin nodules were obtained directly from mummified ovulate cones of Pinus sp. (pine) and Pseudolarix sp. (golden larch) from Axel Heiberg Island and from Metasequoia (dawn redwood) litter in the Giraffe drill core....
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...Succinic acid has been detected in wood of the extinct conifer Frenelopsis (Cheirolepidiaceae) from the Cretaceous of France (Nguyen Tu et al. 2000), as well as in Eocene resinites of Taxodium (swamp cypress) from Germany (Otto & Simoneit 2001) and Pseudolarix from Axel Heiberg Island (Anderson & LePage 1995)....
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...The fossil materials are of comparable age to Baltic amber (i.e. Middle Eocene) and include deposits in northern Canada with exceptional preservation: the Buchanan Lake Formation on Axel Heiberg Island (798550 N, 898020 W; Basinger 1991) and the Giraffe kimberlite locality (648440 N, 1098450 W; Wolfe et al. 2006)....
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