• 14.5 Million Year-Old Fossil Insects From Nevada

    From Inyo@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 27 15:06:52 2016
    Here's a section of a page I recently uploaded--about a specific
    superior middle Miocene paleontologic site in Nevada's Great Basin
    Desert--a place that yields many 14.5 million year-old fossil insects
    preserved along the natural bedding planes of "paper shales"--successive detrital accumulations so thinly bedded than each individual layer is no thicker than a proverbial sheet of paper.

    Images of fossil insects from the middle Miocene Esmeralda Formation,
    Nevada:
    http://inyo2.coffeecup.com/fossilvalley/fossilvalley.html#insects

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