Posts Tagged ‘Arethaea Stål’

WFS News: A new fossil katydid of the genus Arethaea Stål (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with exceptionally preserved internal organs from the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev 50 million years ago in what is now northwestern Colorado, a katydid died, sank to the bottom of a lake and was quickly buried in fine sediments, where it remained until its compressed fossil was recovered in recent years. When researchers examined the fossil under a […]