†Cretakarenni birmanicus Peris and Delclòs 2015 (root eating beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Monotomidae
Full reference: D. Peris and X. Delclòs. 2015. Fossil Monotomidae (Coleoptera: Polyphaga) from Laurasian Cretaceous amber. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 15:333-342
Belongs to Cretakarenni according to Y. D. Li and C. Y. Cai 2022
See also Jiang et al. 2019 and Peris and Delclòs 2015
Sister taxa: Cretakarenni hispanicus, Cretakarenni shaoi
Type specimen: AMNH JZC BU-33C, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Zigras coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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