.27" Detailed Fossil Marsh Fly with Cranefly - Cereste, France

This is a .27" long fossil marsh fly (Tetanocera variculata) with a fossil cranefly (order Tipulidae) collected from an Oligocene-aged shale deposit near Cereste in southern France. The specimen comes with an acrylic display stand.

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.