Parasitic Wasp - Insect fossil from the Yixian Formation for Sale

Parasitic Wasp - Insect fossil from the Yixian Formation For Sale

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Parasitic Wasp - Insect fossil from the Yixian Formation:
$65.00

Parasitc Wasp

Insect fossil order Hymenoptera

Color banding visible on the abdomen. Great detail in the spiracles of the tibia suspended out of matrix in front of the last leg. There appears to be some dimension around the thorax blending into the ovipositor (stinger).

This wasp and the crane flies up for sale purportedly come from lower layers of the lake.

Recovered from Sihetun Village (type locality, 25 miles south of Beipiao city)

in ancient lake Sihetun, a 100 foot deep lake bed covering 20 square miles.

Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (western Liaoning, China) Liaoxi fauna, jehol biota

zircon U-Pb dating 125.2 Ma, feldspar Ar/Ar dating of 124.6 Ma Barremian

plate 3.5 x 2.25 x 1.25 inch

Wasp - almost 1/2 inch with that tail.

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