A water skater; Chresmoda obscura Germar, Eichstätt, (body length is 49 mm), this spider-like creature lived on the top of the water, either in the lagoon or in a nearby stream. When it died it got carried into the stream and was burried and preserved (modified from Barthel et. al., 1990). | |
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