†Vetatractocerus burmiticus Yamamoto 2019 (ship-timber beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Lymexylidae
Full reference: S. Yamamoto. 2019. Fossil evidence of elytra reduction in ship-timber beetles. Scientific Reports 9(4938):1-10
Belongs to Vetatractocerus according to S. Yamamoto 2019
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: FMNHINS-3965988, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (FMNH coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (FMNH coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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