Eocene Baltic

Fig. 19.24. Comparison of spectra of typical Eocene Baltic amber with those from Cretaceous amber from Maryland, Charleston, South Carolina, and Manitoba, Canada. (Langenheim and Beck, 1965.)...

Bauer AM, Bohme W, Weitschat W. (2005) An early Eocene gecko from Baltic amber and its implications for the evolution of gecko adhesion. J Zool (fond) 265 327-332. 

The maturation of amber takes several million years. The oldest ambers known are of the Carboniferous age (c. 350 Ma) and the youngest are the late Miocene ambers of Borneo (c. 5 Ma). The world s main deposits are of die Baltic amber succinite and deposits in the Dominican Republic. Pinus species-derived Baltic ambers (Eocene-Oligocene c. 35 Ma) are the most widely used for carving and the production of varnishes. Other deposits are known from south-east Asia, Mexico, USA, Canada, Romania, Germany and a few localities in the Mediterranean. 

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