A new fossil resin with biological inclusions in lower cretaceous deposits from Alava (Northern Spain, Basque-Cantabrian Basin)

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 158-178

  Alonzo, Jesus ^a   Arillo, Antonio ^b   Barrón, Eduardo ^c   Corral, J Carmelo ^a   Grimalt, Joan ^d   López, Jordi F ^d   López, Rafael ^a   Martínez Delclòs, Xavier ^e   Ortuño, Vicente ^f   Peñalver, Enrique ^g   Trincão, Paulo R ^c  

^a Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBER; CRETACEOUS; LAGERSTATTE; PALEOECOLOGY; RESIN;

ALAVA; SIERA DE CANTABRIA; SPAIN;

AVES; CRUSTACEA; INSECTA; ISOPODA;

EID: 0033965072     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022336000031334     Document Type: Article

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