Fossil Insects & Invertebrates
 In 2008, researchers at Tufts University uncovered what they believe is the world's oldest known full-body impression of a primitive flying insect, a 300 million-year-old specimen from the Carboniferous period. The oldest definitive insect fossil is the Devonian Rhyniognatha hirsti, from the 396-million-year-old Rhynie chert. It may have superficially resembled a modern-day silverfish insect. This species already possessed dicondylic mandibles (two articulations in the mandible), a feature associated with winged insects, suggesting that wings may already have evolved at this time. Thus, the first insects probably appeared earlier, in the Silurian period.  

​Four super radiations of insects have occurred: beetles (evolved about 300 million years ago), flies (evolved about 250 million years ago), and moths and wasps (evolved about 150 million years ago). These four groups account for the majority of described species. The flies and moths along with the fleas evolved from the Mecoptera.

Mazon Creek Invertebrates, Carboniferous USA
Invertebrates from Middle Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous), Francis Creek Shale, Braidwood, Illinois. USA from the famous Mazon Creek bed nodule deposits. These nodules are split open to reveal a world from 309 Million years ago.  We also offer the plant fossils found in the same beds.

Mazon Creek Mazonomya mazonensis Clam 26

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Mazon Creek Shrimp fossil Acanthotelson stimpsoni 61

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Mazon Creek Polychaete Worm Astreptoscolex anasillosus 1

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Mazon Creek Polychaete Worm Astreptoscolex anasillosus 6

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Mazon Creek Polychaete Worm Astreptoscolex anasillosus 12

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Mazon Creek Jellyfish Essexella asherae 57

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Crato Formation Cretaceous insects 
108-92 Million years old, ​Lower Cretaceous Age, Crato Formation, Nova Olinda Member, Nova Olinda, Ceara, Brazil.  From an Old Collection of Crato Formation fossil insects from the Cretaceous of Brazil, South America. These were all collected many years ago. They are very beautiful pieces

Crato Fossil Cricket Insect on matrix 05

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 07

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 010

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 018

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 022

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 023

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 024

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 029

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 039

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Crato Fossil Aquatic Mayfly Insect on matrix 045

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 051

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 055a

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Crato Fossil Grasshopper Insect on matrix 091

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 094

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 095

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 096

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 097

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 098

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 099

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 0100

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 0102

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 0103

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 0104

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 0105

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 0106

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 0107

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 0108

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 0109

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 176

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 056

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 060

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 062

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 065

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 067

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 068

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 076

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 080

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 083

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Crato Fossil Cockroach Insect on matrix 089

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March Flies from Kemmerer formation, Eocene, USA
These March Flies (Plecia pealei) are 50 Million years old, and are found in the Kemmerer Formation, Wyoming (Eocene age).  Each insect is preserved on a limestone matrix, which has been cut to size square in an attractive gem box. They have been painted with a special fossil matt varnish to protect them from dust and damage as they are delicate and on the surface, just like the fossil fishes from the same region.  These will make a really nice addition to your collection.  

March Fly Insect Plecia pealei 05

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March Fly Insect Plecia pealei 03

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March Fly Insect Plecia pealei 03

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March Fly Insect Plecia pealei 07

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March Fly Insect Plecia pealei 08

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Green River Insect Fossils
Rare Beetle, fly larvae & Weevil fossils from Parachute Creek member, Green River Formation, Garfield County, Eocene age (48 MYO), See the photo for scale.   The insects are preserved within a fine limestone, which formed at the bottom of vast lakes.  When insects and plants died, their remains gradually sank down to the thick and murky, oxygen poor layer at the bottom of the lakes, and were preserved for eternity. 

Green River Beetle 02

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Green River Beetle 08

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Green River Beetle 014

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Green River Beetle 025

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