A new flower species found in amber that is 100 million year

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New flower slotxo strains found in 100 million-year-old amber, US researchers have found new flowers in fragments of about 100-year-old amber in Myanmar.
A team of paleontologists from the University of Oregon and the Department of Agricultural Research. US Department of Agriculture Revealed the discovery of a new flowering plant called Valviloculus pleristaminis. Which bloomed in the Middle Cretaceous period, or about 100 million years ago, is buried in the shards of amber or sap of trees in Myanmar.

The research team stated that Despite being tiny, only 2 millimeters in size, the flowers contain 50 beautifully arranged stamens, belonging to the same family as cinnamon. And is also associated with early blackheart sassafras in Australia.


Although Myanmar and Australia are now approximately 6,450 kilometers apart, with a sea barrier. But at the time this flower was buried in amber. Both Myanmar and Australia are located on the great continent of Gondwana. Before splitting into different continents

The discovery provides new information for archaeologists studying the fission of the Great Continent of Gondwana. That the land may separate more slowly than it was in the time it was theoretical to be 200-500 million years ago.