Miocene Collection (page 2)

Insect droppings in Dominican amber. Specimen dates from the Lower Miocene, about 20 million years ago. Fig. 65 from Amber the Natural Time Capsule

Earwig in amber
An earwig preserved in Dominican amber. Specimen dates from the Lower Miocene

Cricket in amber
Cricket preserved in Dominican amber. Specimen originates from the Lower Miocene

Angiosperm flower in amber
A flower trapped and preserved in Dominican amber. This specimen dates from the Lower Miocene period about 20 million years old

Porana oeningensis
Rare fossilised flower preserved as a thin film of carbon on the rock. Porana oeningensis, 2 cm wide, from the Miocene of Oeningen, Germany

Quercus mediterranea, fossil leaf

Fairy fly in Dominican amber

Fossil leaves and thorn of a rose
Leaves of: Rosa hilliiae Lesquereux from the Oligocene period (23-35 million years), Colorado, U.S.A. Thorns of: Rosa penelopes Unger from the Miocene (5-23 million years) Styria, Austria

Ants in Dominican amber
Hymenoptera:Aculeata:Formicidae ants in Dominican amber. One is holding the others abdomen with its jaws. Lower Miocene about 20 million years old

Social wasp in amber
A social wasp preserved in Dominican amber. Specimen dates from the Lower Miocene. Donated by Cobra and Bellamy

Sivapithecus & human mandible
A human mandible (on the left) compared with a Sivapithecus mandible. Sivapithecus, an extinct ape from the Miocene, is believed to have lived 9 million years ago

Sivapithecus sivalensis
Fragments of cranium and mandible of an extinct ape-like primate Sivapithecus sivalensis which lived about 8 million years ago. The specimen was discovered in Potwar, Pakistan

Sivapithecus meteai cranial fragment
A lower fragment of the cranium of Sivapithecus meteai showing maxilla, incisors, canine, premolars and molars. This specimen dates back 9 million years and was discovered in Yassorien, Turkey

Weevil in amber
A weevil beetle preserved in Dominican amber. This specimen originates from the Lower Miocene period

Zygolophodon atticus, mastodon
Front view of a skull of an extinct elephant from the Miocene of Pikermi, Greece. This fossil gave rise to the myth of the one-eyed giant, Cyclops

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