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Issue: Vol. 2 No. 1: March 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-03-28
DOI: 10.11646/mesozoic.2.1.7
Page range: 50-59
Abstract views: 81
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A new early Barremian fossiliferous amber outcrop from North Lebanon and its palaeoenvironment

Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Petroleum Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing; Jiangsu 210008; China; Faculty of Science II; Natural Sciences Department; Lebanese University; Fanar-El-Matn; PO Box 90656 Jdeideh; Lebanon
Museo Geominero; Instituto Geológico y Minero de España IGME-CSIC; 28003 Madrid; Spain
Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Petroleum Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing; Jiangsu 210008; China; Faculty of Science II; Natural Sciences Department; Lebanese University; Fanar-El-Matn; PO Box 90656 Jdeideh; Lebanon
Akkar El-Atiqa Lebanese amber fossil insects biological inclusions Lower Cretaceous FT-IR Mesozoic

Abstract

A new fossiliferous amber outcrop in Akkar El-Atiqa (Akkar District, Northern Lebanon) discovered during recent geological prospection, is described. This discovery constitutes the 31st amber outcrop with biological inclusions in Lebanon and hitherto the most septentrional one among those. It enriches and improves our knowledge about the palaeobiodiversity and the depositional palaeoenvironment of the North-Eastern coast of Gondwana during the early Barremian. An infrared spectrum of amber from Akkar El-Atiqa is given and discussed.

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