This listing is for the exact fossil imaged.
Age: 38–48 million years
Era: Lutetian stage, Middle Eocene
Location: Lithuania
Special notes: This specimen has unusually long legs and large eyes when compared to the rest from this batch, a notably unique insect that takes up most of the oval shaped amber.
Includes display container. This item ships free and carbon neutral.
Note: Due to high demand, the fossil market is flooded with fake amber, often just plastic with embedded insects. We only sell authentic amber with actual fossils.
This table contains the geological time periods of the past 2.5 billion years on Earth to aid in understanding age immense age of these fossils.
(Ma = Mega-annum = 1,000,000 years)EON | ERA | PERIOD | EXTENT (Ma) | DURATION (Ma) |
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Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Quaternary | 2.588–Present | 2.588+ |
Neogene | 23.03–2.588 | 20.4 | ||
Paleogene | 66.0–23.03 | 42.9 | ||
Mesozoic | Cretaceous | 145.5–66.0 | 79.5 | |
Jurassic | 201.3–145.0 | 56.3 | ||
Triassic | 252.17–201.3 | 50.9 | ||
Paleozoic | Permian | 298.9–252.17 | 46.7 | |
Carboniferous | 358.9–298.9 | 60 | ||
Devonian | 419.2–358.9 | 60.3 | ||
Silurian | 443.4–419.2 | 24.2 | ||
Ordovician | 485.4–443.4 | 42 | ||
Cambrian | 541.0–485.4 | 55.6 | ||
Proterozoic | Neoproterozoic | Ediacaran | 635.0–541.0 | 94 |
Cryogenian | 850–635 | 215 | ||
Tonian | 1,000–850 | 150 | ||
Mesoproterozoic | Stenian | 1,200–1,000 | 200 | |
Ectasian | 1,400–1,200 | 200 | ||
Calymmian | 1,600–1,400 | 200 | ||
Paleoproterozoic | Statherian | 1,800–1,600 | 200 | |
Orosirian | 2,050–1,800 | 250 | ||
Rhyacian | 2,300–2,050 | 250 | ||
Siderian | 2,500–2,300 | 200 | ||