.12" Detailed Fossil Insect (Diptera) - Bois d’Asson, France

This is a fossil insect (order Diptera), collected from the Oligocene-aged deposits of Bois d'Asson, France. It measures .12" wide and is beautifully detailed: it may be a pupa or larval stage of the order Diptera.

This is part of an old collection that we recently acquired. The collection includes a variety of insect fossils from around Southern France, collected over a span of 50 years by a woman with PhDs in paleontology and pharmacology.


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DETAILS
SPECIES
Order Diptera
LOCATION
Bois d’Asson, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
SIZE
Fly: .12" wide, Rock: 1.8 x 1.4"
CATEGORY
ITEM
#295300
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