Possible fossil fish in amber

Abstract

The author describes possible fossil fish remains trapped in amber. The remains were identified in fragments of amber from Cretaceous of Myanmar and from Pliocene of Madagascar. Although these remains leave margins of uncertainty in their interpretation, the reported discoveries nevertheless fill the gap represented by the absence of reports of fossil fish in amber, despite the fact that many recent evidences have definitively demonstrated the presence of inclusions derived from organisms living in aquatic habitat in many ambers of various origins and antiquities. The remains described here potentially indicate that the fish trapped in amber may have belonged to fish of both possible freshwater limnetic and possible marine littoral environment.