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Amber With Insect & Spider

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Amber With Insect & Spider

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Description
Locality: 
Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 1.7 × 0.9 cm
Description

Rounded polished piece of Baltic amber from the classic Vistula deltaic sediments of Eocene age (43-45 MY), that includes a complete and well preserved insect of a Diptera Order (mosquito), and a nice arachnid (spider). In perfect condition, it comes with a label from the collection of Dr. Bob Janssens, specimen #1591.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

 

Further info in: Wieslaw Krzeminski (1985) Limoniidae Diptera- Nematocera from Baltic amber in the collection of the Museum of the Earth in Warsaw. Prace Muzeum Ziemi. 37.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Amber

Crystal System: 
Amorphous solid
Hardness: 
2 - 2.5
Colour: 
Blue, Green, Red, Yellow, Brown, Orange

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