List of types of amber

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This is a list of types of amber.

True ambers

*Baltic amber - the most common amber variety, found along the shores of a large part of the Baltic Sea, Eocene age amber.
*Bitterfeld amber, amber from Bitterfeld, Germany, equivalent in age to Baltic amber and has historically been suggested to be synonymous with it
*Burmese amber - also known as burmite, is a Cretaceous ( Cenomanian) age amber about 99 million years old found mainly in the Hukawng Valley, Kachin State, Myanmar (Burma). The most common amber containing insect inclusions of the Cenomanian, mined in a very large amount since late 2010s and became one of the most available types of amber.
*Canadian amber - also known as chemawinite or cedarit, found near Cedar Lake (Manitoba), Cretaceous (Campanian) age amber.
* Charentese amber - opaque amber found in the Aquitaine Basin, France. Cretaceous (Cenomanian) age.
*Cambay amber - amber from Gujarat, India, unlike most ambers readily dissolves in solvents, Eocene age.
*Dominican amber - nearly always transparent, and having a higher number of fossil inclusions than Baltic amber, Miocene age amber.
**Blue amber - a rare color variation, most commonly is found in the Dominican Republic.
*Ethiopian amber - formerly considered Cretaceous, currently considered Miocene age.
*Fushun amber - amber found near Fushun, China, Eocene age.
*Kuji amber - amber from Kuji, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, considered to be Cretaceous (Santonian) in age.
*Jordanian amber - found in Jordan, considered to be Albian in age.
*Lebanese amber - found in Lebanon, Levant and Jordan, considered to be the oldest amber with significant numbers of inclusions, Early Cretaceous (Barremian).
* Mexican amber - found mainly in Chiapas in Mexico, roughly contemporary with Miocene era Dominican amber, and produced by the extinct '' Hymenaea mexicana'' tree, a relative of the '' Hymenaea protera'' tree responsible for producing Dominican Amber.
*New Jersey amber - Found on the Atlantic coastal plain of North America, dated to the Cretaceous, Turonian.
*Oise amber - found near Oise in France, Eocene
*Rovno amber - found in the Rivne region of Ukraine, of similar age to Baltic amber (Eocene), and sharing some species.
* Sakhalin amber - amber from Sakhalin, Russia, Eocene in age.
* Spanish amber- amber from Northern and Eastern Spain, Cretaceous (Albian) in age.
*Sri Lankan amber - found in sea coast in a very small quantity also called Indian amber or Indian sea amber.
*Sumatran amber - found in Jambi, Indonesia this amber is a young amber, typically falling in the 20-30 million year age range. It does not often have clear inclusions, and very few insects are found as compared to other ambers.
* Taymyr amber (also spelled Taimyr) - found in Taymyr Peninsula (northern Russia), Cretaceous (Cenomanian and Santonian) aged amber.

See also

*Black amber - aka Oltu stone, actually a type of jet (lignite) found in eastern Turkey.
*Copal - resinous substance in an intermediate stage of polymerization and hardening between "gummier" resins and amber.
* Kauri gum
*List of minerals

Literature

Biodiversity of Fossils in Amber from the Major World Deposits / Ed. D. Penney. Siri Scientific Press, 2010. 304 pp

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