Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: S. Yamamoto. 2016. The first fossil of dasycerine rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber: Phylogenetic implications for the omaliine group subfamilies. Cretaceous Research 58:63-68
Belongs to Protodasycerus according to Z. W. Yin et al. 2020
See also Chatzimanolis 2018 and Yamamoto 2016
Sister taxa: Protodasycerus corpulentus, Protodasycerus gigas, Protodasycerus tuberculatus
Type specimen: AMNH Bu-SY1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (5 collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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