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XXXIV Jornadas de Paleontología y IV Congreso Ibérico de Paleontología (Villareal, Portugal. Sep 2018) p 279-287, Portuguese amber has received very little attention from the paleontological and geological points of view. To our knowledge, only twelve amber outcrops or amber-bearing areas have been detected in Portugal. The first outcrops were cited in times as old as 1867 and 1910, and although some of them were considered Jurassic in age, most likely the amber came from Cretaceous deposits. The Portuguese outcrops are poor in amber and, thus far, only a dipteran (Nematocera) insect has been found as bioinclusion (Cascais amber); the area of Estoril-Cascais, near Lisbon, provides amber interesting from the paleoentomological standpoint. In contrast, prehistoric amber from Portugal, namely as diverse types of beads and pendants, has been researched in some detail during the last decades. The 25 archeological localities known occur from north to south, ranging in ages from the Neolithic through the Chalcolithic to the Late Bronze Age. Further research is required to prospect the known paleontological localities, and also to look for new ones, in order to obtain stratigraphically contextualized samples and to perform the first infrared and/or Raman spectroscopy analyses. This will allow comparing these with the infrared and/or Raman spectra of archeological pieces to shed light on the origin of the amber as a raw material during prehistoric times. The potential discovery of a paleontological locality yielding abundant bioinclusions would be of great interest, as it would allow taxonomic and paleoecological comparisons with the rich Cretaceous outcrops from the north and northeastern Iberian Peninsula, Museo Geominero, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i del Oceà and Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio). Facultat de Ciències de laTerra. Universitat de Barcelona, Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología. Universidad de Salamanca, Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava, Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad de Granada, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Departamento de História, Estudos Europeus, Arqueologia e Artes, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Coimbra, Instituto de Arqueologia