supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency contracts(APVV-0436-12,APVV-18-0075);the UNESCO-Amba/MVTS supporting grant of Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences,the Slovak Scientific Grant Agency(VEGA 2/0113/22,1/0467/20);the Operational Program of Research and Development and co-financed with the European Fund for Regional Development(EFRD),(ITMS 26230120004)(Building of research and development infrastructure for inves-tigations of genetic biodiversity of organisms),the IBOL initiative,and the PROGRES Q45(Charles University,Prague);funded by Woodside Energy Ltd.and Chevron Australia Pty Ltd.Project CRE(Cretaceous Resin Event:global bioevent of massive resin production at the initial diversification of modern forest ecosystems)was funded by the Spanish AEI/FEDER,UE Grant(CGL2017-84419);supported by a senior postdoctoral fellowship from the Rachadaphiseksomphot Fund,Graduate School,Chulalongkorn University;the research project INSU INTERRVIE NOVAMBRE 2(coord.D.N.)as well as a contribution to the activity of the laboratory‘Advanced Mi-cropalaeontology,Biodiversity and Evolution Researches’(AM-BER)led by D.A.at the Lebanese University.
With the exception of a fly and a mite from the Triassic of Italy,all Mesozoic amber arthropods are from the Cretaceous.Late Jurassic Lebanese amber from Aintourine revealed a completely preserved adult coccid male(wi...
The history of amber and its trade in Lebanon dates back to ancient times,during the Phoenician civilization.Amber in Lebanon can be found in over 450 outcrops,comprising approximately 10%of the country’s land.Some o...
supported by Projects CGL2008-05251-E and CGL2012-39835(MINECO);the Research Group RNM-178,Junta de Andalucia,Spain;supported by the Post-Doctoral Fellowship SFRH/BPD/92376/2013(Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia,Portugal);the research units GeoBiotec-UID/GEO/04035/2013 and MARE-UID/MAR/04292/2013
Shallow-platform settings with marked differences in paleoplatform bottom physiography influence the degree of connection with oceanic waters and overall circulation patterns,even when sharing the same palaeoclimatic ...
Foraminifer is a very useful microorganism to perform biostratigraphical zonation of the Upper Jurassic. Foraminiferal biozones are calibrated by the ammonite standard zones and can be used for intra- and interregiona...
the project"The Study of the Fossil Insects and their Outcrops in Lebanon:Geology of the Outcrops-Historical and Biodiversity Evolution",which received a grant by the Lebanese University(to DA and RG)
Reports of amber predating the Lower Cretaceous are unusual and scarce; they mostly refer to amber pieces of millimetric dimension. In the present study, we report the discovery of 10 new outcrops of Jurassic amber in...
Fish (cartilaginous: elasmobraneh and bony: osteiehthyan aetinopterygian) and reptile (crocodile) mierofosails comprising scales and teeth have been examined from a series of limestone samples in the Upper Juras...