''Miniomma'' is an extinct genus of ommatid beetle. It is known from a single species, ''Miniomma chenkuni'', 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 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 ...

from Myanmar. The species is the smallest known ommatid, at less than 2 mm long, compared to ''

Omma ''Omma'' is a genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae. ''Omma'' is an example of a living fossil. The oldest species known, ''O. liassicum'', lived during the final stage of the Triassic (Rhaetian), over 200 million years ago, though the placeme ...

,'' which ranges in length from 6 to 26 mm.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q102797552 Burmese amber Ommatidae Fossil taxa described in 2020 Prehistoric beetle genera