Description

Early Cretaceous (Berriasian)

Yixian Formation

Huangbangi Valley, Beipiao, Liaoning Province, China.

Fine 0.4 inch insect.

Insect.

Here’s an unidentified insect that lived around the time flowering plants appeared on earth.  In fact, some of the earliest angiosperms are also found in China.

Many Cretaceous insects can be identified to at least family by an entomologist but some now-extinct groups existed then so identifying this one might require the expertise of a paleoentomologist.