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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.
Florissant Fossil Beds: Florissant Formation: Eocene (Priabonian) North America: US: Colorado: Insects: Fossil Prairie Park: Devonian: North America: US: Iowa: Mazon Creek: Francis Creek Shale: Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) North America: US: Illinois [Note 1] Ghost Ranch: Triassic: North America: US: New Mexico: Non-Avian Dinosaurs [Note 1 ...
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.
The fossil examined in the study, collected during a 2011 expedition by the Antarctic Peninsula Paleontology Project, was found encased in rock that dated back 68.4 to 69.2 million years and ...
The Mazon Creek fossil beds are a conservation lagerstätte found near Morris, in Grundy County, Illinois. The fossils are preserved in ironstone concretions , formed approximately 309 million years ago in the mid- Pennsylvanian epoch of the Carboniferous period.
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 ...