Siphonophora hui Jiang et al. 2019 (millipede)

Myriapoda - Siphonophorida - Siphonophoridae

Full reference: X. K. Jiang, W. A. Shear, D. A. Hennen, H. M. Chen, and Z. C. Xie. 2019. One hundred million years of stasis: Siphonophora hui sp. nov., the first Mesozoic sucking millipede (Diplopoda: Siphonophorida) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 97:34-39

Belongs to Siphonophora according to Y. T. Su et al. 2021

See also Jiang et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Siphonophora hoffmani, Siphonophora velezi

Type specimen: IBGAS PAL 001-1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (IBGAS 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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