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This 18.6mm piece of Baltic amber holds a parasitic wasp (hymenoptera) inclusion, trapped in tree resin during the Eocene. It comes from Juodkrantė on Lithuania's Baltic coast.
This piece shows that rarely survive through traditional fossilization. The photos show the exact piece you will receive.
About Baltic Amber
Baltic amber is fossilized tree resin from forests that covered northern Europe roughly 35 to 50 million years ago, during the Eocene. Insects and other small animals that landed in the sticky resin were sealed in, and as it hardened over millions of years, they were preserved in remarkable detail, sometimes down to wing veins and individual hairs. Baltic amber is the world's richest source of fossil insects, and most of it is recovered along the southeastern Baltic coast today. Clear amber with a complete, well-positioned inclusion is the most desirable.
Where This Fossil Comes From: Juodkrantė, Lithuania
Juodkrantė is a village on the Curonian Spit, the narrow strip of dunes along Lithuania's Baltic coast. In the 1800s, the lagoon here was dredged on a huge scale for amber, producing tons of it along with many insect inclusions. Amber from this coast is classic Baltic amber, or succinite, formed from resin of Eocene forests that once covered northern Europe.
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