―The file contains a database on the arthropods’ records from Cretaceous resins of the World. The base is built up as by members of Arthropoda Laboratory of PIN RAS as a part of RFBR project 12-04-01177 (Succession and scale of changes in the Cretaceous non-marine biotas as displayed worldwide by fossil resins). The database mainly contains information on the texonomy and geological distribution of published and new (preliminarily) records of arthropods from Cretaceous resins and, in some cases, beyond. On Dec. 08, 2014 the base contains entries for 2200 arthropod species, 1823 genera, 532 families, 164 localities and 888 references