Biology:Chimerogyrus
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Short description: Genus of beetles
Chimerogyrus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Gyrinidae |
Subfamily: | Gyrininae |
Genus: | †Chimerogyrus Gustafson, Michat & Balke, 2020 |
Species: | †C. gigagalea
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Binomial name | |
†Chimerogyrus gigagalea Gustafson, Michat & Balke, 2020
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Chimerogyrus gigagalea is a fossil species of beetle in the family Gyrinidae, the only known species in the genus Chimerogyrus.[1] It is known from a larval form found in Cenomanian aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. it was found to be a member of Gyrininae, sister to Dineutini + Orectochilini.
References
- ↑ Gustafson, Grey T.; Michat, Mariano C.; Balke, Michael (2020). "Burmese amber reveals a new stem lineage of whirligig beetle (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) based on the larval stage". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189 (4): 1232–1248. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz161. PMID 32780030.
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