It is regarded as the first comprehensive work of its kind, covering all the known history of fossil insects.

The Solite Quarry is most famous for its fossil insects.

While the fossil insect does not have this feature, its forelegs are curved and may have been used in the same way.

In these ancient lake beds are found fossil leaf impressions, petrified wood, fossil insects, and bones of vertebrate animals.

One of the world's leading paleoentomologists, Rasnitsyn has described ca. 250 new genera and over 800 new species of fossil insects from various orders.

Termitaradus protera is known from a series of fossil insects which are inclusions in transparent chunks of Mexican amber.

Despite the vertebrate fossils, the Solite Quarry is most famous for its fossil insects.

A complete media is found in many Palaeozoic fossil insects and in the Ephemeroptera among recent forms.

Syndesus ambericus is known from a single fossil insect which is an inclusion in a transparent chunk of Dominican amber.