Insects in copal
Two flies trapped in copal from East Africa - Rhagio sp. and Chrysopilus sp. Specimens date from modern to pleistocene (2 million years ago). Copal is a more mature form of amber
Picture No
10704183
Media ID
47558972
Size
3637px x 3399px
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Credit
Mary Evans / Natural History Museum
Source
Photograph from the Natural History Museum Collection
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Amber Arthropoda Brachycera Brachycerous Cenozoic Copal Diptera Epoch Fossilised Hexapod Hexapoda Insecta Phanerozoic Pleistocene Quaternary Resin Rhagionidae Snipe
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