Cretogyrus Zhao et al. 2019 (whirligig beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Gyrinidae

Full reference: X. D. Zhao, X. Y. Zhao, E. A. Jarzembowski and B. Wang. 2019. The first whirligig beetle larva from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Gyrinidae). Cretaceous Research 99:41-45

Parent taxon: Dineutini according to G. T. Gustafson et al. 2020

See also Zhao et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Dineutina, Mesogyrus, Cretotortor, Angarogyrus, Miodineutes, Mesodineutes, Dineutus, Baissogyrus, Cretodineutus

Subtaxa: Cretogyrus beuteli

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Ecology:

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

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