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This big spider-looking fossil is an extremely Rare Cretaceous Water Strider on matrix .

It's 11 cm from leg tip to leg tip, the body is 3.3 cm in length (without antennae). It's at the centre on a mudstone slab. 

The specimen preserves all the 6 legs, legs are complete (coxa, femur, tibia, tarsus and anterior tarsus)
Abdomen and thorax are preserved as head and antennae.
Abdominal spines (Genitals?) are well preserved.

This is one of the biggest example I've seen of this rare fossil insect.

The matrix was repaired, glued as it broke in many parts during the extraction.

Matrix size: 15 x 15 cm

Paraloid protector has been added to the fossil.

Specific name: Chresmoda multinervis
Age: Early Cretaceous
Location: Beitou City, Liaoning Province, China
Formation: Yi County Formation

 
Although it looks a lot like a modern-day water-strider, it's more closely related to the stick insects. It likely made it’s living as the water striders do, skating across the surface of the water, preying on other insects.


A very rare fossil, for demanding collectors.

Lower Cretaceous - China

Utra RARE Giant Water Strider Fossil-11cm !! - On Matrix - Chresmoda multinervis- Gerridae

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Cretaceous, Upper (100.5 - 66 million years)

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Neogene, Miocene (23.03 - 5.33 million years)

Paleogene, Eocene (56 - 33.9 million years)

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