Amber

Description

Fossil flies (Diptera indet.) and mosquitoes (Culicidae indet.), in amber, from the Pliocene of 100 kilometres south of Mombasa, Kenya, Eastern Africa

Museum reference

G.1993.63.6

Collection

Fossils

Object name

Amber

Scientific name(s)

order: Diptera - Fly
family: Culicidae

Specimen details

Specimen form: Fossil

Materials

Copal

Physical description

Large elongate polished piece of copal with multiple insect inclusions

Collection place(s)

Mombasa, Kenya, Eastern Africa

Exhibitions

• Amazing Amber (10 May 2013 - 08 Sep 2013)
  National Museum of Scotland