From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Ephemeropsis trisetalis Dragonfly Larvae fossil
Liaoning Province of China
Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous 113-145 million years
These fossil plates display classic early dragonfly Ephemeropsis trisetalis features in great detail for a fossil of this age. IInsects were one of the first groups to recover from the great Permian mass extinction and show more diversity in the Triassic. One of their early advantages was that some of them had mastered flight and were able to escape from predators, something no other group succeeded in doing for millions of years. From then until to