†Priochirus thayerae Yamamoto 2019 (rove beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: S. Yamamoto. 2019. Taxonomic names, in First and oldest Leptochirini rove beetles illuminate diverse cephalic structures in the Cretaceous (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae). Systematic Entomology 44:588-611
Belongs to Priochirus according to S. Yamamoto 2019
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: FMNHINS-3741463, 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)
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