A great Dragonfly on limestone fossil from the famous Solnhofen Limestone, Bavaria, Germany. This specimen measures 89 mm (3-1\/2″) from wing tip to wing tip and 60 mm (2-3\/8″) long. It is on a 160mm (6-3\/8″) by 140 mm (5-1\/2″) limestone matrix.<\/p>\n
True dragonflies (Order Odonata) first appeared during the Jurassic, though similar insects commonly referred to as dragonflies date back to the Carboniferous. While most early dragonflies were not a lot bigger modern ones, members of the Order Meganisoptera got huge with wingspans reaching nearly 2 1\/2 feet. The Solnhofen limestone<\/a> in Germany is the most famous locality for fossil dragonflies, but they are also commonly found in the Crato Formation of Brazil and in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A great Dragonfly on limestone fossil from the famous Solnhofen Limestone, Bavaria, Germany. This specimen measures 89 mm (3-1\/2″) from wing tip to wing tip and 60 mm (2-3\/8″) long. It is on a 160mm (6-3\/8″) by 140 mm (5-1\/2″) limestone matrix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[7,130,10],"product_tag":[136,110,122,137],"class_list":["post-274","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-fossils","product_cat-insects-spiders","product_cat-invertebrates","product_tag-dragonfly","product_tag-germany","product_tag-limestone","product_tag-solnhofen","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}