''Bukhkalius'' is an extinct genus of beetle belonging to the family

Ommatidae The Ommatidae are a family of beetles in the suborder Archostemata. The Ommatidae are considered the extant beetle family that has most ancestral characteristics. There are only seven extant species, confined to Australia and South America. How ...

, it contains the single species, ''Bukhkalius lindae''. It was described in 2017 initially as a species of the extant genus ''

Tetraphalerus ''Tetraphalerus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae, It is currently known from two extant species native to South America and several fossil species from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Asia. Systematics According to Kirejtshuk, ...

'' and was placed into a separate monotypic genus in 2020, which was reaffirmed in a 2021 study. It is known from a single specimen (NIGP 166152) from

Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ...

, dating to the

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...

stage of the Late Cretaceous. The specimen is around 4.7 mm long and around 1.3 mm wide.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q99736605 Burmese amber Ommatidae Fossil taxa described in 2020 Prehistoric beetle genera