A5080436488- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
- Fossil Insects in Amber
- Plant and animal studies
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean
- Botanical Research and Applications
- Geological formations and processes
- Diatoms and Algae Research
- Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
- Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny
- Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
Instituto Geológico y Minero de España
2015-2024
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2023
University of Aveiro
2000-2022
Universidad de Burgos
2012
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
1999-2006
Universidad San Pablo CEU
1996
Abstract Aim The aim of this work was to identify the main changes in flora and vegetation Iberian Peninsula over Cenozoic Era, record disappearance taxa associated with these determine influence climate human activity on events. Location Balearic Islands. Methods A critical review made palaeobotanical literature aims detecting patterns floristic change extracting information different Cenozoic. These data are viewed alongside most recent for period. analysis is role Palaeotropical...
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 found. existence crustaceans (amphipods and isopods), chelicerates (acari arachnids), 12 orders insects, several bird feathers are reported this preliminary study. In addition, there leaf remains, molluscs, a fair number inorganic inclusions.Pollen analysis the clastic series indicates an age between upper Aptian—middle Albian, which...
Within modern gymnosperms, conifers and Ginkgo are exclusively wind pollinated whereas many gnetaleans cycads insect pollinated. For cycads, thrips specialized pollinators. We report such a pollination mode from Early Cretaceous amber of Spain, wherein four female representing genus two species in the family Melanthripidae were covered by abundant Cycadopites pollen grains. These females bear unique ring setae interpreted as structures for grain collection, functionally equivalent to...
Several studies show apparently contradictory findings about the functional convergence within Mediterranean woody flora. In this context, study evaluates variability of traits holm oak (Quercus ilex) to elucidate whether provenances corresponding different morphotypes represent ecotypes locally adapted prevaling stress levels. morphological and physiological were measured at leaf shoot levels in 9-year-old seedlings seven Q. ilex including all recognized morphotypes. Plants grown a common...
Amber is fossilized resin that preserves biological remains in exceptional detail, study of which has revolutionized understanding past terrestrial organisms and habitats from the Early Cretaceous to present day. amber outcrops are more abundant Northern Hemisphere during an interval about 54 million years, Barremian Campanian. The extensive production generated this remarkable record may be attributed biology coniferous producers, growth resiniferous forests proximity transitional...
Abstract: El Soplao outcrop, an Early Cretaceous amber deposit recently discovered in northern Spain (Cantabria), has been shown to be the largest site of with arthropod inclusions that found so far. Relevant data provided herein for biogeochemistry amber, palynology, taphonomy and bioinclusions complement those previously published. This set suggests at least two botanical sources deposit. The ñrst (type A amber) strongly supports a source related Cheirolepidiaceae, second B shows...
The Cretaceous fossil record of amber provides a variety evidence that is essential for greater understanding early pollination strategies. Here, we describe four pieces ca. 99-million-year-old (early Cenomanian) Myanmar from Kachin containing closely related genera short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Kateretidae) associated with abundant pollen grains identified as three distinct palynomorphotypes the gymnosperm Cycadopites and Praenymphaeapollenites cenomaniensis gen. sp. nov.,...
Deserts are stressful environments where the living beings must acquire different strategies to survive due water stress conditions. From late Albian early Cenomanian, northern and eastern parts of Iberia were location desert system represented by deposits assigned Utrillas Group, which bear abundant amber with numerous bioinclusions, including diverse arthropods vertebrate remains. In Maestrazgo Basin (E Spain), Cenomanian sedimentary succession represents most distal part (fore-erg) that...
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 with biological inclusions Lebanon and hitherto most septentrional one among those. It enriches improves our knowledge about palaeobiodiversity depositional palaeoenvironment of North-Eastern coast Gondwana early Barremian. An infrared spectrum from given discussed.
Abstract Angiosperms and their insect pollinators form a foundational symbiosis, evidence for which from the Cretaceous is mostly indirect, based on fossils of taxa that today are anthophilous, fossil insects flowers have apparent anthophilous entomophilous specializations, respectively. We present exceptional direct preserved in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, 100 mya, feeding pollen eudicot genus Tricolporoidites by basal new aculeate wasp, Prosphex anthophilos , gen. et sp. nov., lineage...