A new fossil resin with biological inclusions in Lower Cretaceous deposits from Álava (Northern Spain, Basque-Cantabrian Basin)

J Alonso, A Arillo, E Barrón, JC Corral… - Journal of …, 2000 - cambridge.org
The occurrence of amber in Sierra de Cantabria (álava, Basque Country) has been known
for more than two decades but biological inclusions have only recently been found. The …

[HTML][HTML] Fossiliferous amber deposits from the Cretaceous (Albian) of Spain

X Delclòs, A Arillo, E Penalver, E Barrón… - Comptes Rendus …, 2007 - Elsevier
Amber-bearing deposits are a specific kind of fossil bioaccumulation that preserves exceptionally
well palaeobiological information from the past. The present article discusses the ‘state …

[HTML][HTML] Ticks parasitised feathered dinosaurs as revealed by Cretaceous amber assemblages

E Peñalver, A Arillo, X Delclòs, D Peris… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Ticks are currently among the most prevalent blood-feeding ectoparasites, but their feeding
habits and hosts in deep time have long remained speculative. Here, we report direct and …

Arthropods in modern resins reveal if amber accurately recorded forest arthropod communities

…, X Delclòs, ME Clapham, A Arillo… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Amber is an organic multicompound derivative from the polymerization of resin of diverse
higher plants. Compared with other modes of fossil preservation, amber records the anatomy …

[PDF][PDF] Long-proboscid flies as pollinators of Cretaceous gymnosperms

E Penalver, A Arillo, R Perez-de la Fuente, ML Riccio… - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
The great evolutionary success of angiosperms has traditionally been explained, in part, by
the partnership of these plants with insect pollinators [1–6]. The main approach to …

[HTML][HTML] Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding “Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil …

C Haug, JWF Reumer, JT Haug, A Arillo, D Audo… - PalZ, 2020 - Springer
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) has recently circulated a letter, dated 21st April,
2020, to more than 300 palaeontological journals, signed by the President, Vice President …

Amber and the Cretaceous resinous interval

…, MM Solórzano-Kraemer, S Álvarez-Parra, A Arillo… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Amber is fossilized resin that preserves biological remains in exceptional detail, study of which
has revolutionized understanding of past terrestrial organisms and habitats from the Early …

Symbiosis between Cretaceous dinosaurs and feather-feeding beetles

…, DA Grimaldi, A Arillo… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Extant terrestrial vertebrates, including birds, have a panoply of symbiotic relationships with
many insects and arachnids, such as parasitism or mutualism. Yet, identifying arthropod–…

Dinosaur bonebed amber from an original swamp forest soil

…, A Sánchez-García, C Peña-Kairath, A Arillo… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Dinosaur bonebeds with amber content, yet scarce, offer a superior wealth and quality of
data on ancient terrestrial ecosystems. However, the preserved palaeodiversity and/or …

[HTML][HTML] Amber from the Triassic to Paleogene of Australia and New Zealand as exceptional preservation of poorly known terrestrial ecosystems

…, A Langendam, C Mays, LJM Sutherland, A Arillo… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The Northern Hemisphere dominates our knowledge of Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossilized
tree resin (amber) with few findings from the high southern paleolatitudes of Southern Pangea …