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Id 80
Identification Type Arthropod
Name Insect
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Unique Identification: Insect
Site name: Great Salt Lake
Light type: Plane-Polarized Light
Magnification: not specified
Submitted by: Andy Cohen
Notes: Ephydra (brine fly) proleg claw
Image Tags: none
Unique Identification: Insect
Site name: Spectacle Lake
Light type: Plane-Polarized Light
Magnification: not specified
Submitted by: Andy Cohen
Notes: probably chaoborid mandibular or anal fan
Image Tags: none
Unique Identification: Insect
Site name: Pyramid
Light type: Plane-Polarized Light
Magnification: 400
Submitted by: Joe Smoot
Notes: clay matrix, dark clots are fecal pellets (chironimid?), diatoms and mandible
Image Tags: none
Unique Identification: Insect
Site name: Berendon Pond
Light type: not specified
Magnification: 100x
Submitted by: Ian Walker
Notes: Mandible of unknown insect
Image Tags: brown amber shell carapace insect teeth spikes spines mandible jaw
Unique Identification: Insect
Site name: Berendon Pond
Light type: not specified
Magnification: 100x
Submitted by: Ian Walker
Notes: Mandible of unknown insect
Image Tags: brown amber shell carapace insect teeth spikes spines mandible jaw
Unique Identification: Insect
Site name: Berendon Pond
Light type: not specified
Magnification: 100x
Submitted by: Ian Walker
Notes: insect head capsule - possibly from a tipulid (cranefly)
Image Tags: brown amber shell carapace insect translucent
Unique Identification: Insect
Site name: Berendon Pond
Light type: not specified
Magnification: 100x
Submitted by: Ian Walker
Notes: unknown insect mandible
Image Tags: brown shell carapace insect mandibles spikes spines jaws
Unique Identification: Insect
Site name: Berendon Pond
Light type: not specified
Magnification: 100x
Submitted by: Ian Walker
Notes: unknown insect mandible
Image Tags: brown amber shell carapace insect mandibles spikes jaws
Unique Identification: Insect
Site name: Berendon Pond
Light type: not specified
Magnification: 100x
Submitted by: Ian Walker
Notes: unknown insect leg segment
Image Tags: brown amber shell carapace insect leg tube
Unique Identification: Insect
Site name: Berendon Pond
Light type: not specified
Magnification: 400x
Submitted by: Ian Walker
Notes: unknown insect leg segment
Image Tags: brown amber shell carapace insect leg tube scales
Unique Identification: Insect
Site name: Berendon Pond
Light type: not specified
Magnification: 400x
Submitted by: Ian Walker
Notes: insect compound eye
Image Tags: compound-eye lens translucent
Unique Identification: Insect
Site name: CLW2-Br007
Light type: not specified
Magnification: 400.0
Submitted by: Hedy Kling
Notes: insect eye
Image Tags: lens compound-eye
Unique Identification: Insect
Site name: Steele Lake
Light type: not specified
Magnification: 400.0
Submitted by: Jordon Bright
Notes: portion of insect leg
Image Tags: jointed amber leg
Unique Identification: Insect
Site name: Rice Portage Lake, Carlton County, MN
Light type: Reflected Light
Magnification: not specified
Submitted by: Jimmy Marty
Notes: unknown insect eggs; globose to disk shaped, < 0.5 mm; shiny, smooth, hollow structures; chitinous when viewed under plane polarized light
Image Tags: chitinous shiny smooth glabrous round globose biconvex fringed
Unique Identification: Insect
Site name: not specified
Light type: Plane-Polarized Light
Magnification: not specified
Submitted by: AM
Notes: none
Image Tags: none

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