Description

Insect
Early Cretaceous (Berriasian)
Yixian Formation
Huangbangi Valley, Beipiao, Liaoning Province, China

Big 61mm x 42mm insect on 180mm slab.

This specimen comes from oldest stage of the Cretaceous Period – not long before the first flowering plants appeared.  Perhaps half of the modern insect families appeared during the Cretaceous but this one may belong to a more primitive group.