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Name: Fossil Insect Order: Orthoptera (Cricket); Fish Order: Characiformes Age: Lower Cretaceous Size: mm (25.4mm=1 inch): Cricket: 27 mm body with ovipositor Fish: 20 mm . Matrix: 90 mm by 93 mm. Location: Santana Formation, Ceara, Brazil Code: I013 Price: Sold
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Description:
This fine example shows a cricket with a small Characin (Tetra).
The deposits from which it comes are home to many exquisitely-preserved
specimens, some exceptionally 3-D in nature. Such delicate items
as the paper-thin wing bones of Pterosaurs have been found, testimony
to the type of preservation that can be seen. This preservation
is evident here as well, in the ovipositor extending from the rear
of the abdomen a clear indication that this cricket was a female.
Little material from this treasure trove ever becomes available.
Few ever show two such dissimilar fossils in a single plaque