Eocene Beetle Insect Fossil In Flight Pose

Description: This fine example shows a beetle (Insect Order Coleoptera) with its patterned elytra (wing covers) extended, frozen in its last flight for the past 50 million years. The Green River Formation deposits of Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah are best known for their immaculately-preserved fish, but other examples are known as well, as this specimen attests.