Jarzembowskiops
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''Jarzembowskiops'' is an extinct genus of ommatid beetle. It is known from one species, ''J. caseyi'' described from 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 ...
aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. It was originally placed as a species of ''
Brochocoleus ''Brochocoleus'' is an extinct genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae, known from the Early Jurassic to the Early Late Cretaceous. 9 species are currently recognised, with many species being reassigned to other genera by Kirejtshuk's major sys ...
','' but was subsequently considered distinct enough to warrant its placement in its own separate genus. The species is named after
Raymond Casey Raymond is a male given name. It was borrowed into English from French (older French spellings were Reimund and Raimund, whereas the modern English and French spellings are identical). It originated as the Germanic ᚱᚨᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ ( ...
, a British geologist, while the genus is named after Edmund Jarzembowski, a noted British palaeoentomologist.


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{{Taxonbar, from=Q104861649 Burmese amber Ommatidae Fossil taxa described in 2020 Prehistoric beetle genera