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May 23, 2014
#FossilFriday VMNH staff are photographing and digitizing fossil insects from the nearby Solite quarry, with funding from the National Science Foundation.
This is the holotype (a single physical example or illustration of an organism used to formally describe the species) specimen of Pseudopolycentropodes virginicus, a relative of scorpionflies, and one of the rarest Solite insects. There are only three known specimens of this species, one at VMNH and two at the Yale Peabody Museum. The scale bar is 5 mm, so the body of this insect is only about 3 mm long. Learn more at www.paleolab.org.
