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b

This fossil is also of two parts,
showing both its positive structure
and its negative cast.

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MAYFLY

Age: 156 to 150 million years old

Size: body: 3.3 centimeters (1.3 in); matrix: 7.6
centimeters (3 in) by 10 centimeters (4 in)

Location: Beipiao, Liaoning Province

Period: Upper Jurassic

Like all other insects, mayflies exhibit the same
characteristics and systems they had at the
moment they first appeared. Fossils reveal that
mayflies have not gone through any
intermediate stages. Mayflies that lived 156 to
150 million years ago are the same as those
mayflies living today.

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