†Paleoendeitoma minuta Deng et al. 2017 (ironclad beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Zopheridae
Full reference: C. S. Deng, A. Ślipiński, D. Ren and H. Pang. 2017. The first Mesozoic colydiid beetles (Coleoptera: Zopheridae: Colydiinae) from the Upper Cretaceous amber of Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 78:71-77
Belongs to Paleoendeitoma according to J. Batelka et al. 2018
See also Deng et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Paleoendeitoma antennata, Paleoendeitoma buryi, Paleoendeitoma tuberculata
Type specimen: CNU-COL-MA-0314, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU coll)
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