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Fossil
- Material
- MINERAL/ROCK-SEDIMENTARY;
- Description
- Small round shale is a rusty-beige color with a vague imprint of a small insect resembling a fly. The impressions is a light-beige color with the thorax as the most distinct feature.
- Other Names
- INSECT
- Category
- NATURAL HISTORY
- Sub-Category
- FOSSIL, INSECT
- Description
- Small round shale is a rusty-beige color with a vague imprint of a small insect resembling a fly. The impressions is a light-beige color with the thorax as the most distinct feature.
- History Of Use
- Arthropods are the largest phylum of animals which include insects, spiders, scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, crustaceans and several extinct groups. In most arthropods, the body is divided into a head, thorax and abdomen.
- Material
- MINERAL/ROCK-SEDIMENTARY;
- Width
- 2.5
- Length
- 2.2
- Depth
- 0.1
- Units Of Measurement
- Centimeters
- Accession No.
- 1974.106.1 y
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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