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 age amber about 99 million years old found mainly in the Hukawng Valley, Kachin State, Myanmar. 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.
• Charentese amber - opaque amber found in the Aquitaine Basin, France. Cretaceous 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 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.
• 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, and sharing some species.
• Sakhalin amber - amber from Sakhalin, Russia, Eocene in age.
• Spanish amber- amber from Northern and Eastern Spain, Cretaceous 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 - found in Taymyr Peninsula, Cretaceous aged amber.
• Tasmanian amber - rare regional mineraloid, a brownish-reddish fossilized organic resin from the island of Tasmania.

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