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A New Amber Locality Fills a Gap
Rock&Gem Magazine
|January / February 2026
A sandstone quarry in central Ecuador has yielded the first significant deposit of Mesozoic amber from South America.
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And it gets even better. That amber contains beautifully preserved insects from 112 million years ago.
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