Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Alternative combination: Cretoleptochromus burmiticus
Full reference: Z. W. Yin, C. Y. Cai, D. Y. Huang and L. Z. Li. 2017. A second species of the genus Cretoleptochromus Cai & Huang (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 75:115-119
Belongs to Clidicus according to P. Jałoszyński et al. 2018
See also Yin et al. 2017
Sister taxon: Clidicus archaicus
Type specimen: SNUC-Paleo-0010, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Shanghai Normal University SNUC collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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