Protosiphonorhinus Moritz et al. 2025 (millipede)

Myriapoda - Siphonophorida - Siphonorhinidae

Full reference: L. Moritz, B. Wipfler, and T. Wesener. 2025. Protosiphonorhinus patrickmuelleri gen. et sp. nov., the first fossil member of the sucking millipede family Siphonorhinidae (Colobognatha, Siphonophorida) described from Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Evolutionary Systematics 9:77-86

Parent taxon: Siphonorhinidae according to L. Moritz et al. 2025

Sister taxon: Siphonorhinus

Subtaxa: Protosiphonorhinus patrickmuelleri

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Type: Protosiphonorhinus patrickmuelleri

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (ZFMK coll) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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