Illustration of diversity in plant fossil environment

Fossil plants provide information on the ancient environment and evolution. Plant fossil inclusions are found in both amber and limestones and provide information on syninclusions with other organisms. In this study, amber pieces from Burma, Baltic Sea and Dominican Republic were studied together with London Clay Formation petrified wood, Welo opal from Ethiopia, German fossil pinecone, American Pennsylvanian fossil fern, Australian fossil leaf, and Brazilian fossil grasshopper with plant thalloid liverworts. Plants were identified in all pieces with syninclusions of lichens, animal remains, enhydro water bubbles, winged ant, nematode, crane flies, ants, millipedes, Betsy beetle, mollusks and grasshopper. The results of the study approached ecosystem representations from different regions and epochs (ancient to recent ca. 0.01 to 359 Mya, Pleistocene, Miocene, Oligocene, Eocene, Cretaceous, Permian, Carboniferous) with coexistence of plants with different organisms with and without possible ecological interactions.