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Yesterday we had a day in the Southern Highlands region of NSW, Australia looking for Triassic fish fossils but had time to check out a nearby site we were told about. The Cenozoic plant fossils from this area have been known for decades, although no work has been done on them yet so I'm not sure how old they are. Our fossil insect friend has been interested in this site for a while and he tracked down a property with a great deposit of the material, here we spent an hour or so and found some great specimens! I look forward to revisiting the site and collecting more. These specimens will be given to the Australian Museum collection so they can be worked on (hopefully) one day. I'm still photographing the rest of the specimens we collected but here are three for now. The first is this weevil(?) elytron: A tiny conifer cone: A complete beetle(?), I prepared what I could but I'm not game to go any further without magnifying equipment. More to come!
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Hello, Could anyone identify the species of these two beetles from the La Brea Tar Pits of Los Angeles, California, USA? The large one is 3 cm and the small one is 1 cm. I've heard the terms "water beetle" and "carrion beetle" get thrown around but it's confusing. I think the larger might be Cybister explanatus? Thanks.
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Hi, just looking for a little help identifying this beetle in Dominican amber. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
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Another recent acquisition; a beetle of some flavor from Colorado. Good looking piece, both pos/neg are there, but it looks like something flaked off during prep/collection and was put back on. Can anyone tell from these photos if the annotated crack looks stable, or if not, what should I use to shore it up? It won't be handled on a regular basis, but I want to make sure it's not going to fall off on its own. Sorry about the varying lighting; one photo is from the vendor's site, the other was self-shot. I assure you that they're the same specimen. The vendor has agreed to make things right if it can't be stabilized, so at least there's that. Any suggestions/info that can be gained from these photos?
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Small longhorn beetle (Cerambycidae) from green river formation Utah. Can anyone help me identify it further? Thanks.
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Myanmar Amber ([Unnamed Fm.], 99.34-98.10 Ma)
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From the album: Fossil Amber and Copal: Worldwide Localities
Coleoptera with exuded gas bubbles; these are likely methane, and could be the by-product of methanogenic bacteria inside a xylophagous (wood-eating) species. Some adult members of the Cetoniinae subfamily (family: Scarabaeidae) are xylophagous and known to produce methane; while this is known from Recent species, it's possible such characteristics could be found in extinct members of the Scarabaeidae or Scarabaeoidea (superfamily). This inclusion is contained in the same specimen depicting pholadid crypts. Provenance of specimen is Tanai Township, Myitkyina District, Myanmar. This image was captured using a HAYEAR HY-1070 microscope.© Kaegen Lau
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Potential new species of spiny beetle ( dactylispid?) from burmese amber
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This is a species not described in any literature regarding the burmese Amber. I intend to publish a scholarly article describing it if my suspicions are correct.
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I bought this bit of Madagascar copal a year ago, then finally got a decent microscope to see the bugs this week. They are less than a mm each. Now I'm stumped. I am a certified *modern* naturalist. I know something about insects. This one fits all the defining characteristics of an adult insect - probably Coleoptera - except that I only see four legs and may or may not have had antennae at some point. The heads are not very clear at any angle. On the bottom view, there are nubs at the end of the abdomen that *could* be legs, but that is the wrong place for insect legs. On the side views, it looks like there might be legs folded backward, as is common with some beetles, but the underside view also does not show any attachment points where there might have been legs that broke off. Any paleo-entomologists out there to point out what I am clearly missing in these pictures?
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From the album: Beetle
A small beetle exquisitely preserved in 99 million year old Burmese amber. -
Last year, I went to a gem & mineral show and (among other things) acquired this piece of amber. The seller assured me that it was amber (not copal), but he didn't know where it was from or how old it was. I examined the piece (and several others) with my loupe before choosing this one, based of the number and variety of bugs in it. I have several spiders, a couple of ants, some mosquitos (one with an engorged gut if I'm not mistaken in the ID), a beetle, and at least one midge, plus a couple of things I can't identify. My best guess at origin is Burmese. Under a desk lamp: Backlit by my laptop screen: Detailed closeups next!
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Hi guys, 3mm long in Baltic amber. Was wondering if this was a seed or a leaf? Best images I can do I'm afraid. @Amber Man
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From the album: Insects from the Fur Formation
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Here are 5 insects from the lower cretaceous; specimens 1 and 2 (pics 2a, 2b) from the Yixian Formation, Huangbangi Valley, Beipiao (~ Barremian) specimens 3, 4 and 5 from Nova Olinda, Crato Formation, Brasilia (upper Aptian / lower Albian) Length: specimen 1 = 10 mm (body length) specimen 2 = 8 mm (head to the end of the longest wing) (Diptera?) specimen 3 = 10 mm (body length, head - tail) specimen 4 = 21 mm (total length) (Orthoptera) specimen 5 = 18 mm (total length) (Beetle: Dystiscidae?) Any suggestions are appreciated! (specimen 4 is a grasshopper, specimen 5 a beetle; but is it possible to say more about them?) An additional question: The small circular fossils which look like small bivalves on the Yixian specimens are conchostracans (Nestoria pissovi), but I wonder about the brownish striations on the Nova Olinda material. They are suggestive of trace fossils, but otherwise they seem to show some organic matter similar to the body fossils.They are extremely common on the plates with Crato fossils. Does someone know what they are? Thank you very much! araucaria1959
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Hello all, This is a paper that my adviser just had published on early boring activity of beetles. Pretty good read if your into petrified wood or early insects. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0031668
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