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Issue: Vol. 8 No. 2: April 2025
Type: Review
Published: 2025-04-29
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.8.2.10
Page range: 195–234
Abstract views: 58
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Cretaceous Spanish amber: History, research and checklist of taxa

Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME), CSIC, C/ Cirilo Amorós 42, 46004 Valencia, Spain
Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava, C/ Siervas de Jesús, 24. 01001 Vitoria-Gasteiz (Álava), Spain
Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l’Oceà, Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
bioinclusions described taxa holotypes type localities Mesozoic

Abstract

The present work is a checklist of taxa described or cited from bioinclusions preserved in Spanish amber outcrops (nine type localities). All these bioinclusions are Albian in age (ca. 110–102 Ma), except for a few from a Cenomanian outcrop. All the listed taxa are arthropods (mostly insects), with the exception of some plant parataxa and plant palynomorphs. The present checklist of taxa has been elaborated 30 years after the first bioinclusion was discovered in Spain, thus virtually it spans over 30 years of study by a Spanish team (AMBERIA) thanks to a series of national projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and other public institutions as the Natural Science Museum of Álava (Provincial Council of Álava), and the Government of Cantabria together with the semi-public enterprise EL SOPLAO S.L. The list comprises 7 classes (or similar rank), 24 orders (or similar rank), 101 families, 169 genera and 186 species (including the plant parataxa). Eight families, 104 genera (implicating a total of 104 type species) and 184 species were described based on 184 holotypes from Spanish amber. We provide all the relevant data for each taxon, focusing on new families, genera and species described based on Spanish bioinclusions, pretending to be as useful and readable as possible.

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