Makranczy, GyorgyYamamoto, ShuheiEngel, Michael S.Brunke, A2019-11-082019-11-082018-08-17Makranczy Gy, Yamamoto S, Engel MS (2018) Description of a Cretaceous amber fossil putatively of the tribe Coprophilini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Oxytelinae). ZooKeys 782: 81–94. https://doi.org/10.3897/ zookeys.782.27733https://hdl.handle.net/1808/29749An unusual and well-preserved fossil staphylinid is described and figured from a single specimen in Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber. Gollandia planata gen. et sp. n. is tentatively placed in the extant oxyteline tribe Coprophilini, although it lacks a few characteristic features of present-day members of the group, likely indicating it to be either a stem group of the tribe or prove to be distinct pending future discoveries. The discovery of this genus suggests that early oxytelines were more morphologically diverse during the Cretaceous and their evolutionary history was more complicated than previously documented. Tribal placement as regards fossil oxyteline taxa is discussed.Copyright György Makranczy et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Burmese amberCenomanianMesozoicMyanmarNew GenusNew speciesArticle10.3897/zookeys.782.27733openAccess