The amber forest
Subtitle: a reconstruction of a vanished world
By: George Poinar, Jr., and Roberta Poinar ; with photographs and drawings by the authors.
Contributors: Poinar, Roberta.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Amber fossils -- Dominican Republic; Amber -- Dominican Republic; Paleoecology -- Dominican Republic
Description: "George and Roberta Poinar are world leaders in the study of amber fossils and have spent years examining the uniquely rich supply that has survived from the ancient forests of the Dominican Republic. They draw on their research here to reconstruct in words, drawings, and spectacular color photographs the ecosystem that existed on the island of Hispaniola between fifteen and forty-five million years ago.

The result is the most accurate picture scientists have yet produced of any tropical forest of the past."--BOOK JACKET. "The Poinars present richly detailed drawings of how the forests once appeared. They discuss how and when life colonized Hispaniola and what caused some forms to become extinct. Along the way, they describe how amber is formed, how and where it has been preserved, and how it is mined, sold, and occasionally forged for profit today."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-228) and index.