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A mantis was sealed in 100 million-year-old amber. The details of compound eyes, hands, feet and body are well preserved. Other recent auctions have an adult praying mantis with a starting price of $11,000. In Burmese amber, the probability of a praying mantis appearing lower than Odonata. 

Period: Cretaceous (100 million years old)
Location: Hukawng Valley, Myanmar
Size: Amber 35*22*4 mm 



Cretaceous, Upper (100.5 - 66 million years) - Myanmar

Amber - Mantis in amber - 35 mm - 22 mm

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Silver

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Period

Cretaceous (145 - 66 million years)

Cretaceous, Upper (100.5 - 66 million years)

Paleogene, Eocene (56 - 33.9 million years)

Neogene, Miocene (23.03 - 5.33 million years)

Devonian (419.2 - 358.9 million years)

Cretaceous, Lower (145 - 100.5 million years)

Jurassic, Upper (163.5 - 145 million years)

Jurassic, Lower (201.3 - 174.1 million years)

Jurassic (201.3 - 145 million years)

Quaternary, Pleistocene (2.58 - 0.0117 million years)

Triassic (251.9 - 201.3 million years)

Neogene (23.03 - 2.58 million years)

Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 million years)

Devonian, Middle (393.3 - 382.7 million years)

Ordovician (485.4 - 443.8 million years)

Triassic, Lower (251.9 - 247.2 million years)

Triassic, Middle (247.2 - 237 million years)

Triassic, Upper (237 - 201.3 million years)

Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 million years)

Devonian, Lower (419.2 - 393.3 million years)

Paleogene, Paleocene (66 - 56 million years)

Jurassic, Middle (174.1 - 163.5 million years)

Neogene, Pliocene (5.33 - 2.58 million years)

Mesozoic (251.9 - 66 million years)

Quaternary, Holocene (0.0117 - 0 million years)

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59 (EU) / 19 (IT) / 8 ¾ (US)

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57 (EU) / 17 (IT) / 8 (US)

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1900-2000

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Mosasaur

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Burmese amber

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