Cretagyrtodes glabratus Cai and Huang 2017 (round fungus beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Leiodidae

Full reference: C. Y. Cai and D. Y. Huang. 2017. First definitive fossil agyrtodine beetles: An extant southern hemisphere group recorded from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea: Leiodidae). Cretaceous Research 78:161-165

Belongs to Cretagyrtodes according to C. Y. Cai and D. Y. Huang 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NIGP 166150, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection)

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