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Appearance
![A tiny black insect with feathery wings; the entire body is around 0.5 mm long.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Myanmymar_aresconoides.jpg/102px-Myanmymar_aresconoides.jpg)
- ... that the Albian 100-million-year-old fossil wasp Myanmymar (pictured) is only half a millimetre long?
- ... that the type specimen of the extinct bulldog ant Macabeemyrma ovata is the fossilized remains of an adult queen preserved in shale?
- ... that the type specimen of the extinct tortoise beetle Denaeaspis is only 6.04 millimetres (0.238 in) long?
- ... that the extinct snakefly Agulla protomaculata is the only snakefly described from the Green River Formation?
- ... that the nearest living relatives of Eosacantha, a fossil tortoise beetle from Colorado, are found in Africa, tropical Asia, and Australia?
- ... that the extinct sweat bee Halictus? savenyei was the first fossil bee from Canada to be described?