Fossiliferous amber deposits from the Cretaceous (Albian) of Spain

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 135-149

  Delclòs, Xavier ^a   Arillo, Antonio ^b   Peñalver, Enrique ^c   Barrón, Eduardo ^c   Soriano, Carmen ^a   Valle, Rafael López Del ^d   Bernárdez, Enrique ^e   Corral, Carmelo ^d   Ortuño, Vicente M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Inst Geol Minero Espana   (Spain)

^d Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Alava   (Spain)

^e Universidad de Alcalá ^*  (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amber; Geochemistry; Lower Cretaceous; Palaeobiology; Sedimentary environments; Spain

Indexed keywords

AMBER; COAL DEPOSITS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ALBIAN; AMBER; CENOMANIAN; FOSSILIZATION; NEW RECORD; OUTCROP; PALEOBIOLOGY; PRESERVATION; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; TAPHONOMY;

ALAVA; BASQUE COUNTRY; BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AGATHIS (CONIFER); AGATHIS (WASP); ARAUCARIACEAE; ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; CONIFERALES; CONIFEROPHYTA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 33846781386     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2006.09.003     Document Type: Short Survey

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