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''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 from Myanmar. The species is the smallest known ommatid, at less than 2 mm long, compared to '' Omma,'' which ranges in length from 6 to 26 mm.


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