Dragonfly
Monday, July 21, 2014 at 10:39AM
[chuck] in Jurassic, Science, Stenophlebia latrelli, dragonfly

Apropos of nothing, except perhaps to add a timeframe to your Monday, shown above is a fossil of Stenophlebia latrelli, an extinct genus of dragonfly from the late Jurrasic. i.e. about 150 million years ago. Deep time. Collected from the Solnhofen quarry in Eichstatt, Germany. [NOTE: Photographed in the California Aacademy of Sciences].

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