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This specimen is preserved in Baltic amber of unknown age and locality. It was made available to the High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility for scanning by Dr. David Grimaldi and Dr. Tam Nguyen of the American Museum of Natural History. Funding for image processing was provided by a National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative grant to Dr. Timothy Rowe of The University of Texas at Austin.

The specimen was scanned by Richard Ketcham on 16-17 September 1998 along its long axis for a total of 132 slices. Each slice is 0.1 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.1 mm and a field of reconstruction of 14 mm.

Links

See stereoscopic images of insects trapped in Baltic amber on Wolfgang Wiggers' homepage

robber flies from the website of Fritz Geller-Grimm (Museum Wiesbaden)

robber flies on Featured Creatures (University of Florida and Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services)

About Fossil Insects from Meganeura, the palaeoentomological newsletter

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