Colección de ámbar, Fundación "La Caixa"
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Code
MCFLC-Amb -
Registration date
24/08/2007 -
Update date
31/01/2008 - Download the sheet
Description
The collection of amber of the Museum of Science consists of 675 specimens in its majority (90%) from the Dominican Republic. This collection began in 1994.Overall information
Strengths
Taxonomy of insects in collaboration whit scientists of other institutions.
Usage restrictions
Specimens that are in exhibitions or that will be shortly expose are not lent.
Access restrictions
Loans of material of the collection are made for exhibitions organized by other institutions and research.
Taxonomic coverage
Scientific names
algunos/as Arachnida, principalmente Insecta, algunos/as Malacostraca (Isopoda), algunos/as Myriapoda.
Common names
algunos/as ácaros, Arañas, todo(s) artrópodos, algunos/as ciempiés, algunos/as crustáceos, principalmente insectos.
Geospatial coverage
algunos/as Mar Báltico, algunos/as México, principalmente República Dominicana, algunos/as Rusia.
Temporal location
Temporal coverage
algunos/as Eoceno, principalmente Mioceno, algunos/as Pleistoceno.
Datasets of the collection/database
Types of objects
algunos/as organismos enteros.
Types of datasets
todo(s) fósil.
Conservation method
todo(s) sin tratamiento.
Digitalization
Nº of copies / records
675
Percentage of computerization
80
Does it include Type specimens?
No
Related Resources
Publications
- Entomologia Scandinavica (1999), 29: 411-428
- Beitr. Ent., Berlin (1999), 49(1): 133-140
- Revista Brasileira de Entomologia (1999), 43(3/4): 309-313
- Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, S. Paulo (2000), 41(20): 303-311
- PNAS (2001), 99(3): 1410-1413.