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Wanted to share an usual fossil I self collected a long time ago from the Triassic of New Jersey that I can't really find images of elsewhere on here. This a fossilized large Gall wasp nest, took me awhile to figure this one out initially. I've seen fossils insects but its a pleasant suprise to see a fossilized insect nest.
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https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/100millionyearold-amber-fossil-suggests-mosquitoes-carried-malaria-when-dinosaurs-walked-the-earth/
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[ Inclusion Inside Baltic Amber ] Caddis Fly With Colorful Eyes ( Structural Colour )
vermiculosis posted a topic in Micro-paleontology
Dear Friends, This time i'd like to show nice Caddis Fly ( Trichoptera ) with amazing colorful eyes. This colour is not seen by eye in normal day light - only gymnasty with illuminator lights under binocular can show it. Its called "structural colour". Definition is here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_coloration Its definitely not common in Baltic ambers. Usually Caddis Flies got colorful eyes ( Blue, Green, Lilac ), sometimes Brachycera Flies and i had few times partially colorful spiders. Its nice that we can see colours after 40 million years Enjoy, -
Found another interesting specimen on this Nodule from Smokejacks quarry, measuring under a 1.0mm approximately 0.3mm in length, was quite difficult to photograph. First impression due to it’s almost wing like features I would suggest possible insect. As the concretions of sideritic ironstone and fine grained calcareous sandstone have also yielded numerous insect remains including non-angiospermous plants (ferns and cycads, and a Sequoia-type cone). The quarry cuts through a section of the Wealden group, specifically the Weald Clay. The clay was deposited in a lake and
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From the album: Most of my collection
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Amazing fossil discovery shows how insects got their wings Tim Barribeau, io9 News, August 2, 2012 http://io9.com/59310...got-their-wings Humble bug plugs gap in fossil record, PhysOrg, August 1, 2012, http://phys.org/news/2012-08-humble-bug-gap-fossil.html Palaeontology: An insect to fill the gap, Nature.com August 1, 2012 http://www.nature.co...ll/488034a.html The paper is; Garrouste, R. G. Clément, P. Nel, M. S. Engel, P. Grandcolas, C. D’Haese, L. Lagebro, J. Denayer, P. Gueriau, P. Lafaite, S. Olive, C. Prestianni, and A. Nel, 2012, A complete insect from the Late Devo
