†Alienoptera – Extinct Alienopteran (Ausgestorbener Alienopter)

• Inclusion Size:

Body length 2.8 mm

• Amber Size:

20 x 12 x 2 mm

• Age:

Around 100 million years (Cretaceous period)

• Location:

Myanmar

Remarks:

An unusual representative of the extinct insect group †Alienoptera, known from the Cretaceous. These insects were close relatives of praying mantises and cockroaches and showed a remarkable combination of morphological features not found in any living insect group.