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Name:
Heptagenia sp.
Age: Jurassic
Formation: Peipiao Formation
Location: Liaoning Province, China
Size: Insect is 5 inches across
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Here is an extremely displayable fossil insect. This is a Mayfly, Heptagenia sp., from the Jurassic of China. This extremely large insect (five inches wide!) displays the head, segmented body, and all four wings in fine fashion. The spike at the end of the thick body is intact, and some of the venation of the wings can be seen. The fossil has nice color and contrast and is beautifully displayed on the rounded plate of matrix that also contains a piece of fossilized wood. This is a very striking specimen of a fossil insect from the time of the dinosaurs.
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