4 Flies, Long Legs Mite In Burmite Burmese Amber Fossil Gemstone Dinosaur Age
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:31703353 | Featured Refinements: Amber Fossil |
| Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown | Blue Amber: Burmite Amber |
| Type: Amber | Modified Item: No |
Please see my feedback. I have been selling amber fossils for over 10 years on eBay and do not sell fake amber only genuine material from now extinct plant sources not glass or plastic embedded with present day inclusions. This piece is genuine amberformed over millions of years of polymerization.Burmese (Burmite) amber is difficult to acquire and has been dated to be Cretaceous in age (around 100 million years old) and would have been sticky resin during the time of the... dinosaursand is being mined in the Hukawng Valley in Myanmar(Burma).The Order Acarina includes mites and ticks. According to Secrets of a Lost World: Dominican Amber and Its Inclusions by Rafael Jie Chiang Wu, 'the number of mite and tick species rivals that of insects, and there may be thousands more to be identified.'This includes mites and ticks in Burmite amber as well.This is a fully polished piece of Burmite (Burmese) amber that contains four Cretaceous Period flies and a mite with long, spindly legs (seen in pictures four and five).What makes this mite especially unique is that it lived on the Earth with the dinosaurs. Could it have been a parasite on one? It makes for a very interesting question. Please click on or mouse over images to see a larger view.Pleasesee my other resin fossils including Dominican amber with inclusions, largeColombian copal with inclusions, and very rare Indonesian ambers (some oflovely blue and green color).The piece itself weighs 0.8 grams with dimensions of 1.9 cm length by 1.3 cm width and 0.4 cm height. NOTE: 2.54 cm is 1 inch.I do combine items for up to 7 days to save on shipping costs. Please contact me if you purchase more than one item so I can send you a combined invoice so you do not overpay on shipping.International Buyers: Please note that I ship using First Class Mail International.A SPECIAL NOTE CONCERNING INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Please understand that import duties, taxes and charges are NOT included in the selling price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer's responsibility.Please check your country's customs office to determine what these additional charges may be prior to bidding/buying.I cannot guarantee delivery of your item in a set amount of time. Different country's customs offices take longer to process items than others do.Lastly, I do not mark merchandise values below their true value or mark items as "gifts." U.S. and International government regulations prohibit such behavior. Honesty is the best option.I only sell genuine, all-natural, non-heat treated, reconstituted, or color enhanced amber. This piece could be used as a specimen or in a piece of jewelry. Thank you for your consideration. This amber will ship worldwide at $15.00 U.S. I will combine items to save on shipping for up to a 7 day period and usually ship within a 24 hour period. Please note that the saltwater test to identify real from fake amber is not reliable. The saltwater test claims that real amber will float in saltwater while fake amber will sink.However, many amber sources or even specimens will not float in saltwater as their botanical (plant) composition as well as fossil inclusions are such that they are more dense than saltwater and so sink. I do not sell fake amber. My feedback should help demonstrate this.
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