This
is one of the animals that you will sometimes find in books.
Often it is the same picture that is used from book to book
or article to article. They are so rare in Dominican amber
that you will just not see that many pictures of them. The
whip scorpion is one of the rarest of all finds.

Tail-less whip scorpions or amblypigids are very efficient
predators. They remain hidden under leaves, bark and other
debris for most of the day. They come out at night to feed.
Their chelicerae are modified into strong, spine-armored
grasping organs that the hapless arthropods would find nearly
inescapable. Their front pair of legs, in contrast, are
long and slender, obviously modified
for sensory functions.
Lacking any type of tail
appendage, these formidable creatures are not frequently
encountered. The females carry their eggs in a sac attached
to the undersurface of the abdomen by a few silken threads.
The abdomen has what "looks like" an egg sac.
This is not an egg sac but probably an extrusion that is
made by gasses from the body and excretion of uric acids
and other metabolites.
Such an unbelievably rare item, this whip scorpion. Look
carefully because it is the only one you will ever see
for sale.
Here is a scanned
image with a ruler next to it. You can click on the
above images it see a larger picture.
This rare fossil is about 24 million years old and was
found at the La Cumbre mine NE or Santiago, Dominican
Republic.
Amblypygi..........Genus
Phrynus species resinae...............
Schawaller 1979
The
size is about 1 inch x .5 inches x .5 inches
The
price of this unbelievably rare specimen is $19,000.