Cretodineutus rotundus Liang et al. 2020 (whirligig beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Gyrinidae

Full reference: Z. L. Liang, Z. H. Qi, J. H. Chen and F. L. Jia. 2020. Cretodineutus rotundus gen. et sp. nov., the oldest adult whirligig beetle from the Upper Cretaceous of Myanmar (Coleoptera, Gyrinidae, Gyrininae). Cretaceous Research 106(104251)

Belongs to Cretodineutus according to Z. L. Liang et al. 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: SYS-ENAM0010, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (SYSU collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (SYSU collection)

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