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| An undescribed true plant bug (not all insects are technically classified as"bugs," of course). From the middle Miocene Esmeralda Formation, Fossil Valley, Nevada. Photographed by the long-time doyen of Nevada Cenozoic Era paleobotany, the late paleobotanist Howard E. Schorn (former Collections Manager of fossil plants at the University California Museum of Paleontology). Fossil Valley is now a federally protected area; unauthorized collecting there is strictly verboten. |