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.
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Scientific classification 
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| 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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| †Chimerogyrus gigagalea Gustafson, Michat & Balke, 2020
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References
edit- ^ 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. PMC 7398075. PMID 32780030.
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