Kochit

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Kochit is the name for a fossil resin that is found in Triassic rock in the Kochental in Tyrol .

Its discoverers Adolf Pichler took place in mid-19th century small pieces of Bernsteinvarietät in a marl of Raibl (Upper Triassic Carnian ) in Kochental and named the fossil resin after its place Kochenit . Rare readings are still possible today in this area. These are mostly just millimeter-sized teardrop-shaped inclusions in the rock.

With an age of around 230 million years, cookingite is one of the oldest known fossil resins. The botanical source of the resin is not known.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Strasser: Kochit. Triassic amber from the Mieminger Mountains, Tyrol. In: LAPIS , vol. 34 (2009), issue 5, p. 58, ISSN  0176-1285 .

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