†Microlynx franzbesucheti Kohring and Schlüter 1989 (antlike stone beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: R. Kohring and T. Schlüter. 1989. Historische und paläontologische Bestandsaufnahme des Simetits, eines fossilen Harzes mutmaßlich mio/pliozänen Alters aus Sizilien. Documenta Naturae 56:33-58
Belongs to Microlynx according to P. Jałoszyński and E. Perkovsky 2016
See also Kohring and Schlüter 1989 and Newton and Franz 1998
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Freie Universitat Berlin Sc TS 1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Sicilian amber (Freie Universität Berlin coll), which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Italy.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Sicilian amber (Freie Universität Berlin coll)
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