†Scydmaenus minor Yin and Cai 2019 (antlike stone beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: Z. W. Yin and C. Y. Cai. 2019. A new species of minute Scydmaenini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 101:70-75
Belongs to Scydmaenus according to Z. W. Yin and C. Y. Cai 2019
Sister taxa: Scydmaenus heeri, Scydmaenus linqibini
Type specimen: SNUC-Paleo-0078, 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: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Shanghai Normal University SNUC collection)
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