Description
Insect
Early Cretaceous (Berriasian)
Yixian Formation
Huangbangi Valley, Beipiao, Liaoning Province, China
Big 61mm x 42mm insect on 220mm 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.
One of the larger flying insect fossils on the market.