Dragonfly wing

Description

Species: *Typus whitei* This fossil, is the type specimen for *T. whitei* and is from the Hermit Shale of Lower Permian time (~280 million years old). This nearly complete fore-wing is from an early and much larger insect simlar to a dragonfly. The description of the fossil by Carpenter (1928) is available here: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/psyche/1928/082052/abs/ This fossil is in the collections at Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Learn about paleontology in the National Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fossils/index.htm Learn more about Grand Canyon National Park’s Centennial: https://www.nps.gov/grca/getinvolved/centennial.htm