List of types of amber
This is a list of types of amber.
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A large piece of Baltic amber (9.7 kg), one of the largest pieces of Baltic amber ever found. The piece is stored at the Natural History Museum in Berlin.
True ambers
- Baltic amber - the most common amber variety, found along the shores of a large part of the Baltic Sea, Eocene age amber.
- Burmese amber - also known as burmite, is a Cretaceous 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 age amber.
- 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.
- Lebanese amber - found in Lebanon, Levant and Jordan, considered to be the oldest amber, early Cretaceous and maybe Jurassic.
- 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.
- Rovno amber - Found in the Rivne region of Ukraine, of similar age to Baltic amber (Eocene), and sharing some species.
- 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 age 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
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