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Compression fossil of Gonatocerus greenwalti from Montana. Fairyflies are well represented in fossil amber inclusions, copal, and compression fossils. Their fossils have been found from the Early Cretaceous up to the Miocene epoch. It is, in fact, the only family of chalcidoids definitely known to date back to the Cretaceous period. [46]
Myanmymar is an extinct genus of fairyfly preserved in Burmese amber from Myanmar. It has only one species, Myanmymar aresconoides. It is dated to the earliest part of the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, around 99 million years old. As of 2011, it is the oldest known fossil mymarid.
The Mymarommatoidea are a very small superfamily of microscopic fairyfly-like parasitic wasps. It contains only a single living family, Mymarommatidae, and three other extinct families known from Cretaceous aged amber. Less than half of all described species are living taxa (the others are fossils), but they are known from all parts of the world.
In recent years, it has been proposed that the nearest relatives of Mymarommatoidea are the extinct Serphitoidea, including the family Serphitidae, and therefore claim the Mymarommatidae are essentially "living fossils". †Palaeomymar is known from a single species (P. succini Meunier) from Eocene aged Baltic amber.
It was identified by a team led by John Huber at the Canadian National Collection of Insects and John Noyes at the Natural History Museum.Noyes collected it during a scientific expedition in the tropical forests of Costa Rica.
The fossils played a part in both Celtic and Norse mythology, were venerated, associated with burials, woven into myths and legends and used when making tools and decorative objects. [6] These fossils are commonly known as thunderstones, fairy loaves or shepherds' crowns. [1] Echinoid fossils are sometimes found associated with archaeological ...
Polynema includes over 200 species of fairyfly. [2] [3] [4] Species include: Polynema euchariforme Haliday 1833; Polynema howardii (Ashmead 1887) Polynema needhami Ashmead 1900; Polynema sagittaria van Noort & Triapitsyn, 2018; Polynema striaticorne Girault 1911
A fairyfly found in Baltic amber, a species of Gonatocerus. Habraulacus [161] Gen. et sp. nov Valid Li et al. Cenomanian Burmese amber Myanmar. A praeaulacid evanioid wasp. The type species is Habraulacus zhaoi. Khasurtella zhangi [140] Sp. nov Valid Kopylov & Zhang Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation China. An ichneumonid, a species of Khasurtella.